[MMUSIC] Test FLUTE for Service/Session Announcement for Multicast Apps

Hi all,

Does anyone want to transport multicast session announcements with another
protocol than SAP?
I have used FLUTE for this purpose. You can also test how it works with an
open source implementation,
see http://www.atm.tut.fi/mad.

Cheers, Sami

ps. (there is a short discussion below about this topic)

>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently working with topic, which handles service and
> session announcements for multicast applications. SAP/SDP doesn't
> suit very well for describing services, which could be
> categorized to different groups, for example sports, news etc. So
> that the receiver could build some kind of service hierarchy from
> the announcements, and the user is able to browse the services
> from categories he or she is interested. At least I have chosen
> another protocols than SAP/SDP in my work. RMT working group's
> FLUTE protocol seems to be very good choise for the transmission
> of service descriptions, so I am using it. I can't use SAP
> because it has limited payload size and payload can't be
> segmented to different packets (my service and session
> descriptions are much larger than for example one SDP
> description). I am using XML in my service and session
> descriptions so it was nice to notice that SDPng has now again
> XML-Schema. Has anyone else considered to use FLUTE for
> transmission of session announcements?
>
> Cheers, Sami
>
> >
> > Does anyone have a problem with a new and better announcement
> > protocol than SAP?
> >
> > We need a few things which SAP doesn't handle too well, which is
> > one of the things covered by the Internet Media Guide effort in
> > MMUSIC:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mmusic-img-req-00.txt
> >
> > I guess anyone involved in applications/services over multicast
> > could be interested, especially where point-to-point isn't desirable.
> >
> > I wanted to get an idea of any strong opinions before I stick out
> > head and propose a real protocol task for MMUSIC next month.
> >
> > Cheers, Rod.
> >

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