Subject: [pim] Current status of the BSR draft

From: "James Lingard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:04:30 -0000

The BSR draft authors have recently submitted draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-05.txt.  This email is to give a brief update on the status of the draft.  We will go over this in more detail in the presentation to the WG in Minneapolis.

We have made good progress in this revision, reducing our issues list from 25 pages (70 items) down to 11 pages (30 items).  In particular, in this revision we have concentrated on addressing the many issues relating to administrative scoping, particularly with respect to IPv6.

However, there is still a lot of work to be done before we will have resolved all the known issues, including the following.

o  Finalizing the RP Set maintenance model (the so-called "IW/EW" issue that was discussed in Washington DC and on the mailing list around that time).

o  Resolving several issues with the Bootstrap FSM.

o  Issues to do with semantic fragmentation.

o  Further editorial work (in particular, to continue to improve the explanation of the protocol with respect to administrative scoping).

Feedback is very welcome on the latest version of the draft, particularly on the administrative scoping changes that we have made in this revision.  However, please bear in mind if you do a full review of the document that there is much work left to be done; for this reason, it may be more productive to wait until the next revision of the draft before doing a detailed review.

There are a few specific points on which we require input from the WG.  We will be sending an email to the mailing list about these in the next few weeks.

James, Nidhi, Alex and Stig.

-- 
James Lingard
Data Connection Ltd (DCL)
http://www.dataconnection.com/

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