On Sun Mar 17 15:44:36 2002 Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: <...> > So, I'd like to ask the WG: > > 1) Do people think that the existance of multicast within a site > (e.g., home, enterprise, etc.) can be assumed? > > Note: I'm assuming link-local multicast will always work, the > question is whether wider scope (beyond neighboring routers) > multicast is available.
strong YES, however, imo it's always good to design a protocol with separation of concerns in mind. If, say, a service discovery needs multicast, that for some reason is not available, then there should be an option to use [e.g. manually configured] anycast instead. I believe that the question deserves to be discussed IETF-wide cheers Michael -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
