Both RFC6831 and draft-ietf-lisp-signal-free describe why SSM is a preferred 
solution. 

Dino

> On May 24, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Anoop Ghanwani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Beau & Dino.
> 
> We'll add a reference to RFC 6831 and a brief discussion of SSM.
> 
> Anoop
> 
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If a reference to RFC6831 is provided, then there are many details on how an 
>> underlay can support ASM, Bidir, and SSM.
>> 
>> Dino
>> 
>> > On May 24, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Williamson, Beau 
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd like to see Section 3.4, "IP multicast in the underlay" expanded a bit.
>> >
>> > The section mentions the use of BIDIR for a scalable underlay.  The sad 
>> > fact is that many vendors still do not fully support BIDIR in their 
>> > devices (after how many years?) or have limitations on its use that 
>> > preclude it as a viable option.  I'm no expert in these Underlay sort of 
>> > DC to DC networks but it seems that SSM would not have that issue since it 
>> > is basically a subset (and much simpler to implement and configure) of the 
>> > PIM protocol and would therefore be available in pretty much all vendor 
>> > devices that support multicast.  The problem is one of Source Discovery of 
>> > the VTEPs (or, in the case of this draft I think the term is NVE) which 
>> > would be the sources of the multicast traffic in each TS.
>> >
>> > At the very least, I'd like to see a paragraph discussing the possible use 
>> > of SSM as an alternative to BIDIR if the VTEP/NVE devices had a way to 
>> > learn of each other's IP address so that they could join all SSM SPT's to 
>> > create/maintain an underlay SSM IP Multicast tunnel solution.  This would 
>> > greatly simplify the configuration and management of the underlay IP 
>> > Multicast environment.
>> >
>> > I realize that the VTEP/NVE Source Discovery problem is beyond the scope 
>> > of this Framework document but I'd like to see the above mentioned to 
>> > possibly encourage more work in this area if it is not already underway.
>> >
>> >
>> > Beau Williamson
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>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: MBONED [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dino Farinacci
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:21 PM
>> > To: Bocci, Matthew (Nokia - GB)
>> > Cc: MBONED WG; <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: Re: [MBONED] NVO3 Multicast Framework
>> >
>> > Sorry, I thought I had. NVo3, see my comments below.
>> >
>> > Dino
>> >
>> >> On May 24, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Bocci, Matthew (Nokia - GB) 
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Dino
>> >>
>> >> Could you copy NVO3 on your comments, please?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Matthew
>> >>
>> >> From: EXT Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>
>> >> Date: Monday, 16 May 2016 at 23:31
>> >> To: Leonard Giuliano <[email protected]>
>> >> Cc: MBONED WG <[email protected]>, Matthew Bocci 
>> >> <[email protected]>, Benson Schliesser 
>> >> <[email protected]>
>> >> Subject: Re: [MBONED] NVO3 Multicast Framework
>> >>
>> >> I just have one minor comment. Regarding the second paragraph:
>> >>
>> >> <PastedGraphic-2.png>
>> >>
>> >> Using LISP-signal-free does not mean the head-end must do replication. 
>> >> The draft indicates that a mapping system is used to decide where packets 
>> >> go. If the mapping database indicates that packets are encapsulated to 
>> >> multicast RLOCs, or unicast RLOCs, or both in one set, so be it.
>> >>
>> >> And note if there is a single multicast RLOC, then there is no 
>> >> replication happening at the head-end, just one packet encapsulting 
>> >> multicast in multicast.
>> >>
>> >> So what is written above is true, but it may be associated with an 
>> >> incorrect section title.
>> >>
>> >> Dino
>> >>
>> >>> On May 12, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Leonard Giuliano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> MBONED,
>> >>>
>> >>> The following draft recently went through WG last call in the NVO3 
>> >>> working group:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nvo3-mcast-framework/
>> >>>
>> >>> This doc covers multicast in data center overlay networks.  As you know, 
>> >>> it is part of our charter in MBONED to provide feedback to other 
>> >>> relevant working groups.  Please review and send any comments to the 
>> >>> NVO3 WG mailing list ([email protected])- all comments will be greatly 
>> >>> appreciated by NVO3.
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