MBone Working Group

Working-Group  Homepage

Chairman: KK37-RIPE  

Table of contents:

Applications

Terms of Reference

Transport protocols and mechanisms

Debug/Analysis tools

Related material

Acknowledgements

Terms of Reference:

The Mbone Working-Group (WG) in RIPE is set up to enable the coordination of Mbone in Europe and to enhance the flow of information on Mbone related subjects inside the RIPE community.

Coordination of Mbone in Europe is desired due to the nature of Mbone and its applications. Necessary 'Tunnel' coordination work in Europe is done via this WG. The WG will also interact with other Working Groups in related topics (i.e. Routing or DB).

The WG in RIPE will follow new developments of technologies on the infrastructural level and on the application level.
Results will be published when available during the meetings, on the mailing list and on this Web-page.
One result is a recommended list of applications and ISPs that offer multicast based services.

The WG hereby welcomes any input from vendors that offer to update their implementations status, which will be incorporated into this page.
Future topics will also be discussions about content providing and accounting.

Applications

General Mbone information is found on the 'main Mbone server' at www.mbone.com.
This servers hosts also a lot of FAQ and 'how-to' documents if you're new to this topic.
 

The Multimedia Conferencing Applications Archive shows also a very nice overview of public domain applications and current versions of implementations.
(This page is maintained by Graeme Wood.)

Transport protocols and mechanisms

RTP, PIM, 

Debug & Analysis tools

RTPdump
Multicast debugging handbook

Related material

European-Mbone-FAQ (any volunteer to complete the missing sections?)
European-Mbone-contacts list (outdated, any update welcome!)
A nice Mbone-resource page

The MBone-D IETF Working group covers current deployment issues
The IDMR IETF Working group is currently developing Inter-Domain Multicast Routing
A nice book for starters: MBONE: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet

thanks to:

• RIPE-NCC team for hosting this WG
• Axel Clauberg and Martin Horneffer from Uni-Köln for his support
• Rob Blokzjil for his efforts (btw: I like this picture! :-)
• Magnus Danielson and Jan-Erik Bos for their previous chairmanship
• Bill Fenner for all his work on Mbone and mrouted
• Thomas Telkamp for his input
• Peter Löthberg for Radio RIX :-)