Re: You asked about multicast scope

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 29 Mar 2012, at 14:15 , Brian Haberman wrote:
> 
>> It is not an assumption, it is stately quite clearly in the Scoped Addressing Architecture (RFC 4007).  From Section 5 :
> 
>>     A zone of a given scope (less than global) falls completely within
>>     zones of larger scope.  That is, a smaller scope zone cannot
>>     include more topology than would any larger scope zone with which
>>     it shares any links or interfaces.
> 
> Brian, Stig, thanks for the help.
> 
> Fred: I think what would be best is to define a "service provider" scope that is smaller than global, and larger than organization. These would be defined to be forwarded to ISPs by default, although organizations that don't want that can always filter them at the desired boundary.
> 
> That way, the clients can always use a fixed scope = fixed multicast group, avoiding the need for discovery or configuration here.

I don't think this is a service provider discussion.