Re: Why MSDP?

["John M. Zwiebel" <jzwiebel@cisco.com>]

How about  <dah, dah>  MMP -- (M)SDP/(M)BPG/(P)IM.



 ^ 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 qui
    te
 ^ 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

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