Re: [MBONED] WGLC for <draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-uni-based-mcast-04.txt>

Toerless Eckert wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:53:51PM +0100, Stig Venaas wrote:
[...]
> Somehow i remember a time, let's call it the 80th and early 90th where
> most of the protocols and networked applications running on the
> Internet where based on reuse of research developed libraries and application
> code, freely available. I wonder where that model went for the simple
> object of an application layer multicast library that under the hoods
> would appropriately choose ASM, SSM, SSM+hub/spoke distribution,
> AMT or worst case unicast replication. Strangely enough nobody from

I would really like to see this as well. Isn't that partly what the IRTF
samrg is looking into? Or at least I've been hoping.

> any university ever stepped forward and said they'd be willing to implement
> this and put it into some reference app like vlc or the mbone tools.
> Shouldn't be a problem to get such a work funded.

Someone has implemented something a bit like this, making an ASM
application work with only SSM. On Linux with LD_PRELOAD this could be
done without modifying the binary.

Stig

> 
> Cheers
>     Toerless

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