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

I think this is an interesting idea... multicast forwarding in mesh
networks has always been a pain, especially in heterogeneous networks.
I don't think I have ever seen a proposal that could work well enough
and there is also the problem that the Linux kernel multicast
forwarding capability is not that useful for mesh networks.

Henning Rogge

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 5:15 AM 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Donald
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