Re: [babel] BABEL / MANET / ROLL and multicast

Out of curiosity, what's the use-case for using multicast over a mesh
network?
When it comes to device/service discovery, we've found that a unicast-based
register/query model is much more reliable and wire-efficient.
David

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:15 PM Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> During the last IETF meeting I spoke with the Routing Area ADs and there
> was a suggestion that we might look into having a joint BABEL / MANET /
> ROLL WG meeting on the topic of multicast. All three Working Groups, BABEL,
> MANET, and ROLL, have considered multicast but not made much progress in
> that direction.
>
> If there is interest in this, I can contact the chairs of MANET and ROLL
> to see about scheduling a joint session for the next IETF meeting which
> will be July 25-29. (That meeting will be in Philadelphia but as usual,
> remote participation will be reasonably convenient.) Of course, if the WGs
> can't come up with a reasonable number of presentations, no joint meeting
> would be held.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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