Re: [ssm] msnip status

[Beau Williamson <bwilliam@cisco.com>]

Well, I think the deafening silence on this topic over the last couple of 
years pretty much speaks for itself.

To a large degree, MSNIP is a solution in search of a problem.  I'd rather 
see us focus our efforts elsewhere myself.

Beau Williamson
At 10/19/2005 06:12 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>Brian: What exactly where the points that stopped the last MSNIP draft
>from moving forward ? I unfortunately don't remember the details,
>and in general i'm of course annoyed that there's no good means in the
>IETF to keep that last work status summary alive in case it needs to
>get picked up again.
>
>I think MSNIP tried to solve a key functionality for the SSM architecture,
>and while it may be possible to ad-hoc hack something similar up once
>somebody requires it, i still think that it would be good to have an
>IETF recommendation for this functionality.
>
>If we were to release an RFC, we could make it informational. I don't
>think that MSNIP itself needs to be focussed on what Pekka is claiming
>"universal adoption". Because it only applies to sources, it will always
>tender only to comparably much fewer places than for example IGMP.
>
>Cheers
>         Toerless
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -0400, Brian Haberman wrote:
> > Hi Stig,
> >      The consensus is that msnip is not the solution people want.
> > Additionally, there has been no one volunteering to work on the
> > problem in general.
> >
> >      Combining MSNIP with MRD doesn't make a lot of sense
> > and any such plans were abandoned.
> >
> >      If you have people interested in the problem, have them bring
> > forth ideas.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brian
> >
> > On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:48, Stig Venaas wrote:
> >
> > >Now that magma is being shut down, what is the future of
> > >draft-ietf-magma-msnip? I know several people that are
> > >interested in seeing this work continue. Are there any
> > >plans for that, or has it more or less been decided that
> > >this is not the way to go? I know there were discussions
> > >on combining it with MRD, but don't think that went
> > >anywhere.
> > >
> > >Stig
> > >
> > >
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>    Toerless Eckert
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