Re: Work Proposal

[Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>]

In message <3740F7E3.9A4@cisco.com>, John Meylor typed:

 >>christophe diot wrote:
 >
 >>> But I am a little surprised that we didnt get any feedback from other
 >>> carriers and ISPs. More support would help to have a new ietf working
 >>> group.
 
 >>I think we should all consider this point very carefully, particularly
 >>since there has been extensive participation from many ISPs over the 
 >>last year in design, development, and testing of the current multicast
 >>protocol suite, particularly MBGP and MSDP. 


to say that MSDP is "carefully"..."designed" is stretching credulity
and patience to breaking point.

 >>Cheng-Yin's proposal made interesting points, and we should address
 >>those points, but I don't think they warrant spinning off a new 
 >>IETF WG, let alone a new multicast service model, certainly not unless 
 >>we do get more universal and compelling ISP input.
 
sprint isn't compelling? do you want to sell any products?

 cheers

   jon