Dino Farinacci wrote:
I would like to know if the RRG is going to recommend an architecture that explicitly says it won't include multicast, or it will implicitly include it but lack any reference to how it will scale. But I do think "multicast" is "routing".
Well, you may recall that when we started this work, we put together a list of requirements. There were no explicit requirements for multicast. Thus, I would think that this is orthogonal to the task at hand. From the proposals that I've seen, most will deal with multicast implicitly.
What the RRG could recommend is that we don't support a native multicast architecture in the core but the edges could run multicast as defined today but the edges would perform "replicated unicast".
That is certainly possible. However, I hope that we have our sights set higher than that. Replicated unicast is simply not multicast and clearly does not scale.
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