Meeting minutes - 50th IETF.

[Supratik Bhattacharyya <Supratik@sprintlabs.com>]

Thanks are due to Tom Pusateri for agreeing to be the scribe  (under
severe coercion :-) )

--Supratik

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SSM working group minutes
March 2001 IETF Minneapolis, MN


Updates on existing ssm drafts
    holbrook-ssm-arch 02
        Hugh Holbrook gave update
            Addressed ipv6
            Added examples and address range
            Ready for wg last call for proposed standard
    bhattach-pim-ssm
        Supratik gave update
            Added IPv6 and security discussion
            Remaining: conformance with the architecture
            Headed for informational
            Need comments
    holbrook-idmr-igmpv-v3-ssm-01
            Hugh Holbrook gave update
            New changes
            IGMP module should have configuration option for
            SSM ranges
            Default to IANA range
            Must allow for manual config
            IGMPv3 hosts MUST not transition to exclude mode
            when it runs out of resources. Now in base igmpv3 spec.
            This doc will move to new MAGMA working group should
            it be approved.

He-mixed-igmp-proxy
            He gave update
            Current igmp proxying draft only addresses behavior
            for same version proxying
            With mixed versions, there are some differences :
                v3 to v2 - v2 on upstream, v3 on downstream
                           v3 joins translated to v2 joins
                           forwarding is still done based on
                           v3 info
                v2 to v3 - proxy should drop v2 joins in ssm range
                           Hugh pointed out that faking v3 when you
                           have v2 upstream routers is a configuration
                           bug.
            Dave Thaler gave an example of where proxy must look at
            source address and not just transparently send upstream
            to router when source is not toward router.

            Hal Sandick would like to see transition section updated
            before last call.

draft-kim-ssm-hierarchical-scheme-00
            Myung-ki Shin talked about their draft
            SSM ignores deployment issues in inter-domain
            Hierarchical considerations should be considered
            Automatic tunneling between border gateway and source not
            on multicast network
            Receiver requirements
                no changes required
            Border gateway router requirements
                sends unicast registration to source
            Source requirements
                source receives registration message and tunnels
                ssm data to all border gateway routers
            Dave Meyer
                Suggested that SSM doesn't have a scaling problem.
                Concerned that this draft solves a problem we don't have

                consensus that this is an incremental deployment
solution
                that should be discussed in MBONED.

DNS for SSM
           Hugh summarized discussion on mailing list
                Jeff Schoch :
                    mcast.example.com       IN      A       10.10.10.42
                    radio.mcast.example.com IN      A       232.1.1.1

                Dino :
                    radio.example.com       IN      AA
10.1.1.1.232.1.1.1

                Toerless :
                    just use SDP

draft-schoch-dns-ssm :
           Jeff Schoch gave a talk on his proposal :
               Little change to existing infrastructure,
               keep it simple
               Proposal: group.source.domain-name
               Joel objected to this method  : doesn't give
                   you the info you really need. SDP does
                   have all the info you need, not just the
                   IP addresses.
               Dave Thaler agreed with Joel
               Hugh repeated that on the mailing list it was
               mentioned that this might be useful for
               debugging.
               Dave Meyer did not like the idea of putting
               semantic context in the DNS.
               Off topic, Dave would like us to
                   use ASM (Any source multicast) instead of
                   ISM (Internet standard multicast)
                   Ross Finlayson said use
                   SIM (source independent multicast)
               Hugh polled the working group on AA records.
               Dave Meyer still objected.
               Joel said while people may want a replacement
               for SDR, we don't really need one. Multicast is
               no different than unicast in this sense.
               Hugh said others thought it might be useful for mtrace
               Marshall didn't think it was ever useful to have
               names to map to group and source.
               Jeremy Hall said that people with access to sources
               aren't the same people with access to DNS.
               No conclusion reached, the discussion is to be taken
               to the mailing list.
Charter Bashing
                Charter item have been fulfilled.
                There are no new action items
                We expect this is the last meeting.