Multicast Last Mile BOF (mlm) Monday, July 14 at 1930-2200 ============================ CHAIRS: Greg Shepherd Keyur Patel AGENDA: 1. Agenda Bashing (all) 2. Problem description (shep - 10min) 3. Discussion of current gaps and future direction (from the floor) WEB REFERNCE: http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/last-mile RELEVANT PAST WORK: (this list is possibly incomplete - please send updates) http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/upim/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-01.txt http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/upim/draft-finlayson-mboned-autotunneling-00.txt http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/upim/draft-finlayson-umtp-07.txt http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/upim/draft-keyur-pim-host-extensions-00.txt http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/upim/draft-jibiki-iwata-msdp-idmf-00.txt MAILLIST: http://www.shepfarm.com/mailman/listinfo/mtp DESCRIPTION: Successful content distribution business plans have been hampered by the all-or-nothing nature of a multicast routed infrastructure. Several drafts have arisen over the past few years to address the last-mile multicast deployment gap, but have all lost momentum for various reasons. Recent efforts on yet another draft have revealed the need to have all affected parties participate in the effort in order to provide a comprehensive yet simple and deployable solution. A content owner which wishes to build a buisness model around multicast distribution is hampered by the current limited scope of multicast deployment. Their only option today is to purchase multicast transit services from their provider of choice which does not ensure the path between their content and their customers is multicast enabled. The administrative control of the multicast topology in this relationship is restricted to the provider and the content customer. The missing step on the path to full multicast deployment will require a solution which allows the content owner the benefits of multicast replication, independent of the radius of the multicast deployment. The purpose of this BOF is to bring together operators, content providers/owners, application and protocol implementors to discuss the problem and worked towards a mutually desired solution. The expected outcome will be an evaluation of interest, a better defined problem statement, directions for any future progress from the BOF participants.