> And, to be honest, if I just "think wider", REQ3, 4, and 5 (IPv6, existing > mobility protocols, and compatibility) should be sufficient to cover > "multicast support". I copy-paste from the respective motivation sections: > "DMM solutions SHOULD target IPv6 as the primary deployment environment." > [..] "A DMM solution SHOULD first consider reusing and extending > IETF-standardized protocols before specifying new protocols." I think these > two would in general cover also stuff developed in multimob. And, as if this > is not sufficient, then REQ5 should close this discussion: "The DMM solution > MUST be able to co-exist with existing network deployments and end hosts." > Therefore, if you already have multicast services in your domain, the DMM > solution should handle them. > > Now, we did agree in Atlanta to have a quick resolution wrt to multicast, and > perhaps explicitly add "REQ7: Multicast support", if the multimob folks can > deal with this in an expedient manner. If not, imo, REQs 3/4/5 should more > than suffice to cover "multicast support in DMM". >
I agree. Existing requirements do cover what we need. Regards, Behcet _______________________________________________ dmm mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm
