Re: [rrg] MIP in a future routing architecture

[HeinerHummel at aol.com]

In einer eMail vom 26.11.2009 02:35:49 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt dino at cisco.com:

Did anyone indicate if multicast was a fundamental requirement or 
fundamental component?

Dino

 

Multicast: It strikes me that multicast has never been a topic for RRG discussion, although it is mainly a routing issue.

 

State-less multicast would be a valuable topic, I thought 3 years ago when I tried to launch a respective EU-ICT project which was rated to be "very poor" (not only simple "poor" as was NIRA).

 

However, state-less multicast can be done by changing the multicast philosophy. Multicast must adjust, and not the routing architecture. Will say, it can be accomplished with the current BGP as well.

Nevertheless, the combination "state-less multicast + location-based routing" might be even more beneficial. E.g. inspire future research work as to minimize the hereby accepted disadvantages/costs.

 

Heiner