Re: New Internet Draft on automatic (end-user) tunneling for SSM

[zaid <zalbanna@MCI.NET>]

" (I'm hoping that this will help break the logjam that has held back
the
widespread adoption of multicast...) "

I hope you are right. We (This community) also have to consider the
high
probability that as a result of this draft no (ISP) will deploy
multicast natively .
Another sad and high probability is that ISPs start blocking that kind
of traffic and start charging for it under the flag of multicast
services.

Thanks,
Zaid

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
To: mboned@network-services.uoregon.edu
<mboned@network-services.uoregon.edu>
Cc: ssm-interest@external.cisco.com <ssm-interest@external.cisco.com>
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:11 PM
Subject: New Internet Draft on automatic (end-user) tunneling for SSM


I have just written (with Radia Perlman and Doron Rajwan) a new
Internet Draft:

      Accelerating the Deployment of Multicast Using Automatic
Tunneling

                <draft-finlayson-mboned-autotunneling-00.txt>

Abstract

Many Internet users currently cannot participate in wide-area IP
multicast sessions, because their first-hop routers (or beyond) do not
support IP multicast routing.  We describe an application level
(UDP-based) tunneling mechanism that allows non-multicast-connected
users - with no modification to their operating systems - to
automatically receive a large class of multicast sessions, pending the
deployment of multicast in their upstream routers.
-----------

We'll be giving a presentation on this during the MBONED WG session at
the
Minneapolis IETF.  The I-D should get announced shortly; in the
meantime,
you can find a copy online at <http://www.live.com/autotunneling.txt>.

(I'm hoping that this will help break the logjam that has held back
the
widespread adoption of multicast...)

         Ross.