[36139] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: MBone access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Tue Mar 27 19:41:48 2001
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From: "Martin, Christian" <cmartin@gnilink.net>
To: "'tme@21rst-century.com'" <tme@21rst-century.com>,
Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>,
Toerless Eckert <eckert@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:30:49 -0500
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One of the things that appears to be a major impediment to large-scale
deployment is the lack of SA transitivity, which is limited by MSDP's RPF
rules. Therefore, the Internet needs a dense mesh of MSDP peerings to allow
any-to-any connectivity. As of now, this is not the case. SSM will fix
this.
regards,
chris
>
> Dear Jared;
>
> I could do this at NANOG 22 if there was any interest. I
> presented on SSM last time.
>
> I honestly think that the main barrier is inertia, plus a
> lack of strong customer demand
> (as in, people calling up and saying "why can't I get
> multicast ?"). I think a little
> demand would go a long way towards overcoming the inertia.
>
>
> Regards
> Marshall Eubanks
>
>
>
> T.M. Eubanks
> Multicast Technologies, Inc
> 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410
> Fairfax, Virginia 22030
> Phone : 703-293-9624
> Fax : 703-293-9609
> e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com tme@multicasttech.com
>
> http://www.on-the-i.com http://www.buzzwaves.com
>
>
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