Re: [AVT] RTP: Note regarding SSM

[Mark Baugher <mbaugher@cisco.com>]

hi Marshall

At 02:55 PM 1/8/2003 -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
<...>
> How about 
>
> In the multicast routing approach called
> Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), there is only 
> one sender per "channel" (a source
> address, group address pair), and receivers
> (except for the channel source) cannot use multicast 
> to communicate directly with other channel members.

This sounds fine to me.

Mark


> Marshall
>
>
> > Mark 
> >
> >
> > >         
> > > > 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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> > >                                  Regards 
> > >                                  Marshall Eubanks 
> > >
> > > T.M. Eubanks 
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> > >
> > > Test your network for multicast : 
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> > >
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> >
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>                                 Regards 
>                                  Marshall Eubanks 
>
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> 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@multicasttech.com 
> http://www.multicasttech.com 
>
> Test your network for multicast : 
> http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/ 
> Status of Multicast on the Web  : 
> http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html </blockquote></x-html>