Re: [pim] agenda requests for Montreal

Hi Toerless,

Thanks for raising this discussion.

I have a few questions/comments.

>  a) misunderstanding how IGMPv3/MLDv2 are fully backward compatible
>     with IGMPv2 / MLDv1 functionality and also fully support ASM.

IGMPv3/MLDv2 fully support ASM with an EXCLUDE (*,G) mode operation, no?

This may not be the intended discussion, but the EXCLUDE mode operation is the concern.

In IGMPv3/MLDv2, once a member subscribes a multicast channel with EXCLUDE mode, the upstream router's filter-mode for the group will be set to EXCLUDE, which requires switching to the shared tree. This means an EXCLUDE mode operation easily stops the SSM communication.
Of course, EXCLUDE (*,G) join whose multicast addresses are within the SSM address range should be discarded by applications/kernels/routers. However, it is an operational solution. If applications use other multicast address range such as GLOP or something, the problem can appear again.
(I don't remember what happens if a user invokes EXCLUDE (S,G) join whose multicast address is within the SSM address range..)

Moreover, the EXCLUDE mode operation is almost meaningless as practical applications do not use EXCLUDE mode to block sources very often; a user or application usually wants to specify desired source addresses, not undesired source addresses. Nevertheless, kernel implementations to support EXCLUDE filter-mode as well as INCLUDE filter-mode are complex enough.

I don't know what direction this discussion will lead to, but if it aims to revisit IGMP/MLD protocol standardization, I support to get rid of EXCLUDE mode operations for the regular multicast *applications* (except for control messages invoking (*,G) such as ND and other discovery protocols on a LAN).
RFC5790 (Lightweight-IGMPv3/MLDv2) would be a good start.

>   b) Raising standards track level of IGMPv3/MLDv2/IGMP-MLD-lite

I don't think this IGMP-MLD-lite means RFC5790, but is it almost same or very similar to LW-IGMPv3/LW-MLDv2?

Regards,

Hitoshi

> On 2018/07/03, at 6:54, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> WOuld like to ask for a "new new draft currently" to discuss
> interest and process to evolve standards status of IGMP/MLD
> 
>   a)  downgrade IGMPv1/IGMPv2/MLDv1 to something worse than IGMPv3/MLDv2/IGMP-MLD-lite
>      - goal is to do everything we can do to discourage utilization of old protocols
>        in new products.
>   b) Raising standards track level of IGMPv3/MLDv2/IGMP-MLD-lite
>   c) documenting/mitigating ? Risk in deployments upgrading.
> 
> 
> I for once have really no clue on what the process for a), b) is and what
> our options are, so i hope we'll have a friendly AD or more senior IETF
> pprocess aware folks who could help figuring ou the best option quickly.
> 
> Wrt to c): After raising a) on the list i talkd to a customer who was
> worried about a) happening because of i think a range of issues: 
> 
>  a) misunderstanding how IGMPv3/MLDv2 are fully backward compatible
>     with IGMPv2 / MLDv1 functionality and also fully support ASM.
> 
>  b) In any text we may produce about downgrading older IGMP/MLD<
>     it needs to be very clear that this implies NO change to the
>     status of ASM (and the separate work we are doing to change the status
>     of ASM will only downgrade interdomain ASM).
> 
>  c) In the specific deplyment, intradomain ASM is used wih Bidir-PIM,
>     and to the best of my knowledge, the interaction between Bidir-PIM and
>     IGMPv3/MLDv2 is not well specified, but IMHO its also not really well
>     specified for PIM-SM. 
> 
> Let me know. 10 mins or so ?
> 
> Cheers
>    Toerless
> 
> (*): If you prefer me to have slides highlighting 
> 
> 
> In-Reply-To: <8CCB28152EA2E14A96BBEDC15823481A1CBEC069@sjceml521-mbs.china.huawei.com>
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:13:48PM +0000, Michael McBride wrote:
>> If you haven't yet requested time to present in Montreal please do so. We are meeting back to back, same room, with mboned but not sharing the same timeslot since we were way to rushed last time. Grab a cookie then come to pim. Here are the time slots:
>> 
>> TUESDAY, July 17, 2018
>> 
>> 1330-1530  Afternoon Session I
>> Notre Dame      	OPS 	mboned      	MBONE Deployment WG
>> 
>> 1530-1550  Beverage and Snack Break - Convention Floor Foyer
>> 
>> 1550-1820  Afternoon Session II
>> Notre Dame      	RTG 	pim         	Protocols for IP Multicast WG
>> 
>> We will send an agenda out in another week.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> mike
>> 
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