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From: swb@CHUMLEY.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: *looking for implementations of RFC-1112*
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Date: 29 Oct 90 20:40:29 GMT
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We (Cornell, gated) and Proteon are both working on implementing routing
multicast packets in OSPF; Steve Deering's involved too.  After we get
that nailed down Cornell plans on building multicast support into either
BGP or IDPR.  although I expect the inter-administration protocols to be
significantly more difficult.  The algorithms are more or less worked
out for doing all of this, but it'll be a while.
							Scott

	I have several users who've recently become aware of RFC1112 written
	by S.Deering of Stanford(1989) on Host Extensions on IP Multicasting.
	
	We're reviewing the paper for possible interest. Questions are:
	
	1) Has any router/bridge company done this? If not, are any
	working on it.
	
	2) Are there any networks supporting this at this time? Or in
	the future?
	
	3) Any more interesting comments you can add to this.