Re: [ssm] msnip status

FWIW I do not think that dropping the MRD option was a show stopper for 
MSNIP. The reason the work stalled was that there was no interest. I 
agree with Toerless that it was a key piece for SSM.

Isidor

Toerless Eckert wrote:
> Brian: What exactly where the points that stopped the last MSNIP draft
> from moving forward ? I unfortunately don't remember the details,
> and in general i'm of course annoyed that there's no good means in the
> IETF to keep that last work status summary alive in case it needs to
> get picked up again.
> 
> I think MSNIP tried to solve a key functionality for the SSM architecture,
> and while it may be possible to ad-hoc hack something similar up once
> somebody requires it, i still think that it would be good to have an
> IETF recommendation for this functionality.
> 
> If we were to release an RFC, we could make it informational. I don't
> think that MSNIP itself needs to be focussed on what Pekka is claiming
> "universal adoption". Because it only applies to sources, it will always
> tender only to comparably much fewer places than for example IGMP. 
> 
> Cheers
> 	Toerless
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -0400, Brian Haberman wrote:
> 
>>Hi Stig,
>>     The consensus is that msnip is not the solution people want.
>>Additionally, there has been no one volunteering to work on the
>>problem in general.
>>
>>     Combining MSNIP with MRD doesn't make a lot of sense
>>and any such plans were abandoned.
>>
>>     If you have people interested in the problem, have them bring
>>forth ideas.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Brian
>>
>>On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:48, Stig Venaas wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now that magma is being shut down, what is the future of
>>>draft-ietf-magma-msnip? I know several people that are
>>>interested in seeing this work continue. Are there any
>>>plans for that, or has it more or less been decided that
>>>this is not the way to go? I know there were discussions
>>>on combining it with MRD, but don't think that went
>>>anywhere.
>>>
>>>Stig
>>>
>>>
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