Re: [pim] PIM WG recharter

["Williamson, Beau" <[e-mail]>]

[Second Try] Apparently the thread is too big in KB for my responses to go to the WG.]

Looks good to me, Mike.

Beau Williamson

From: pim [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Mike McBride
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:53 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [pim] PIM WG recharter

Hello good pimers,

Great seeing many of you in Dallas. Thank you for your feedback on the rechartering effort. Based upon your comments during the meeting, and on the list, here is a new rev for your consideration. All feedback welcome, encouraged and needed. Please note the same acronym, but new wg name, thanks to your creative minds.

mike


The Protocols for IP Multicast (PIM) working group, is chartered to work on multiple IP multicast protocols.  The Working Group is responsible for the maintenance of PIM, IGMP, and MLD.

The Working Group will work on the following specific items:

1) Management for PIM:  YANG models for PIM, IGMP, and MLD will be developed.  If updates to existing MIB modules are necessary, the WG may work on those.

2) Improve PIM authentication: The WG may work on improvements to PIM authentication.

3) Improve and Extend PIM Join Attributes to support different types of multicast applications.

4) Optimization approaches for IGMP and MLD to adapt to link conditions in wireless and mobile networks and be more robust to packet loss.

5) Explore alternatives to IP Multicast routing protocols. The WG should discuss and develop new ideas related to multicast protocols and distribution of multicast related information.

Additional work items may be added with a recharter.

The WG is expected to use its extensive multicast knowledge to actively review and participate in WG Last Calls with multicast work that occurs in other WGs, such as MPLS, BESS, ROLL, and BIER. The WG should investigate any extensions needed to support other work and, if additional work is required, the WG may be rechartered to accomplish the specific extensions.