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Re: [AVT] RTP: Note regarding SSM



Dear Stephen;

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:20  PM, Stephen Casner wrote:

One of the IESG comments (this one from Harald Alvestrand) was a
request to add the following "non-normative note" at the end of
Section 6 where RTCP is introduced (i.e., just before 6.1).  Does
anyone object?

        Non-normative note:  In the multicast routing approach
        called Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), only one or a few
I do not like "a few" here. There is one sender per channel. True, there
can be multiple channels, but then it is not limited to "a few", and, of course,
there is nothing stopping the receivers from sending on their own channel.

I would change this sentence to

In the multicast routing approach called Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), there is only
one sender per "channel" (source - group pair), and receivers cannot use multicast
to communicate directly with other channel members.

        senders send multicast data, and receivers may not send
        multicast.  The recommendations here accommodate SSM only
        through Section 6.2's option of turning off receivers' RTCP
        entirely.  Future work will specify adaptation of RTCP for
        SSM so that feedback from receivers can be maintained.

                                                        -- Steve

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