Multicast Extensions to OSPF (mospf)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Steve Deering, deering@xerox.com

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Description of Working Group:

     This Working Group will extend the OSPF routing protocol so
     that it will be able to efficiently route IP multicast packets.
     This will produce a new (multicast) version of the OSPF
     protocol, which will be as compatible as possible with the
     present version (packet formats and most of the algorithms will
     hopefully remain unaltered).

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Become familiar with the IGMP protocol as documented in RFC
           1112.  Survey existing work on multicast routing, in
           particular, Steve Deering's paper ``Multicast Routing in
           Internetworks and Extended LANs''.  Identify areas where OSPF
           must be extended to support multicast routing.  Identify
           possible points of contention.

Done       Review outline of proposed changes to OSPF. Identify any
           unresolved issues and, if possible, resolve them.

Done       We should have a draft specification.  Discuss the
           specification and make any necessary changes.  Discuss
           implementation methods, using the existing BSD OSPF code,
           written by Rob Coltun of the University of Maryland, as an
           example.

Done       Report on implementations of the new multicast OSPF. Fix any
           problems in the specification that were found by the
           implementations.  The specification should now be ready to
           submit as an RFC.



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