Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:44:53 -0800 From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBONE anyone? Message-ID: <4.3.1.1.20020225131347.00c8eac0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <m16fLX4-000ONMC@onizuka.vmunix.org> References: <4.3.1.1.20020224032401.00cab890@localhost>
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At 05:51 AM 2/25/02, Torsten Blum wrote:
> > Torsten's use of the term "MBone" is obsolete :-)
>
>Nope. Mbone is multicast using DVMRP.
Sorry Torsten, you are incorrect. The term "MBone" refers to the entire
multicast-routed subset of the global Internet. At first, however, prior
to the introduction of native multicast routing on some links, this
consisted solely of DVMRP tunnels - hence the confusion.
(To your credit, you're not the first person to have been confused by
this. For this reason, I've recently been using the term "Multicast
Internet" instead.)
>Ask people who do deploy multicast in the internet.
I have, and do - on an ongoing basis (e.g., in the IETF's MBONED ("MBone
Deployment") Working Group, which I participate in).
Please review the Internet Drafts and RFCs that have been issued by the
IETF MBONED Working Group. And please stop spreading misinformation about
"the MBone being obsolete". (If the MBone were "obsolete", then there
wouldn't be an ongoing "MBone Deployment" Working Group, would there :-)
Ross.
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