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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Tony Ballardie/UCL
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- Minutes of the Inter-Domain Multicast Routing BOF (IDMR)
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- The IDMR BOF session was held on Friday during the Columbus IETF
- meeting. The meeting was chaired by Tony Ballardie. The Minutes were
- taken by Benny Rodrig. The CBT Protocol was discussed for the duration
- of the session, in particular, the changes in the protocol since last
- November's IDMR BOF session.
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- Multicast Scope Control
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- One possible solution to multicast scope control was presented, based on
- having a separate group per level of scope required. This resulted in a
- considerable debate as to how multicast scoping should be defined and
- the requirements of users it should be able to satisfy. The solution
- presented was deemed unsuitable, and it was agreed to continue the the
- discussion on the idmr mailing list. The conclusion was that the Group
- should work towards a concise definition of multicast scope control.
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- Part of the group initiation procedure includes the group initiator
- (host) updating DNS (via a system administrator) with the relevant group
- information. The concern was raised that the procedure is likely to be
- too slow. This part of group initiation may need to be revised to keep
- group join latency to a minimum.
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- Multicast Data Packets
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- There was a brief discussion on the issue of multicast data packets
- carrying the group-id as an IP option. The conclusion however, was that
- there was no more suitable alternative.
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- When a parent/parent link fails, it was decided that both the flush-tree
- and re-join mechanisms should be implemented. Which of the two
- mechanisms eventually becomes redundant can only be decided after a
- period of performance testing.
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- It was decided that non-primary cores should be less stringent in
- accepting join-requests. Also, an additional error detection mechanism
- is required by routers to distinguish on-tree packets arriving via a
- child as link-level unicast.
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- The draft includes no mention of child-parent ``keepalives'' and no
- mention of a handshake protocol between a group initiator and potential
- cores for that group. The draft needs updating in these respects.
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- The control packet format should contain a group-id TYPE as an
- additional protocol independence feature.
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- Finally, Paul Francis gave a brief description of how CBT will run over
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- Attendees
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- Anthony Ballardie A.Ballardie@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Jim Beers Jim.Beers@cornell.edu
- Robert Braden braden@isi.edu
- Scott Brim Scott_Brim@cornell.edu
- David Carr Carr@acsu.buffalo.edu
- Stephen Casner casner@isi.edu
- Steve Deering deering@parc.xerox.com
- Steve DeJarnett steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
- Ed Ellesson ellesson@vnet.ibm.com
- Chip Elliott celliot@bbn.com
- Dino Farinacci dino@cisco.com
- Paul Francis Francis@thumper.bellcore.com
- Chris Gunner gunner@dsmail.enet.dec.com
- Joel Halpern jmh@network.com
- Ken Hayward Ken.Hayward@bnr.ca
- Robert Hinden hinden@eng.sun.com
- Frank Hoffmann hoffmann@dhdibm1.bitnet
- Gerd Holzhauer holzhauer1@applelink.apple.com
- Tony Li tli@cisco.com
- Charles Lynn clynn@bbn.com
- Kent Malave kent@bach.austin.ibm.com
- Jun Matsukata jm@eng.isas.ac.jp
- David Meyer meyer@ns.uoregon.edu
- Gerry Meyer gerry@spider.co.uk
- Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com
- Matthew Morrisey morrisey@wpsp01.hq.aflc.af.mil
- William Owens owens@acsu.buffalo.edu
- Laura Pate pate@gateway.mitre.org
- Geir Pedersen Geir.Pedersen@usit.uio.no
- Willi Porten porten@gmd.de
- Benny Rodrig 4373580@mcimail.com
- Sally Tarquinio sallyt@gateway.mitre.org
- Fumio Teraoka tera@csl.sony.co.jp
- Paul Traina pst@cisco.com
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