Re: Why MSDP?

[Toerless Eckert <eckert@cisco.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:04:56PM -0800, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>     But I'm in favor of keeping acroynms as simple as possible, so I would
>     suggest:
> 
> 	SSM - single source multicast (because changing this will really
>                                        confuse people - again)

Well, i thought we'd already called this "Source Specific Multicast" for quite
a while. At least in all the specs in the SSM working group.

And if you have that meaning of SSM, then ASM makes a very good distinction:
In SSM you the receiver must be SPECIFIC about which source you want traffic
from (and right, it can be more than one), and in ASM you take traffic from
ANY source.

>         OM  - original multicast

Oh no, yet another abbreviation ;-))

Cheers
	Toerless