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Re: draft-ietf-msdp-spec-15

To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-msdp-spec-15
From: Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:59:53 -0700
Cc: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>, iesg@ietf.org
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Harald,

 MSDP deployment is as much an experiment as IP multicast deployment
 in general. In other words, it's more than just an experiment, but
 it's definitely not very successful, which is why we don't want to
 put the spec on the STD track. Hope this is not confusing...

-- 
Alex
http://www.psg.com/~zinin/

Saturday, April 26, 2003, 9:14:41 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Alex,
> given that it's documenting existing implementations only, does that mean 
> that people consider the current MSDP deployment an experiment (and not a 
> very successful one)?

> Just curious....

>                 Harald

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