RIPE Working Groups
Mbone Working Group
This working group is no longer active
 Chair: Kurt Kayser (KK37-RIPE)
The MBONE working group discusses traffic on the Multicast Backbone.
Mbone as it existed before the advance of PIM as a more effective and more
scalable way to organize the Multicast-routing table there was a need to
coordinate on a pan-european level the socalled DVRP-Tunnel setup. It was a
bilateral configuration (mostly on workstations or servers) that were able to
control and route multicast packets. That was until about 1997. PIM showed
great advantages and it was also natively integrated into routers where IP
packets normally get processed most efficiently.
The Routing-WG now deals with exactly those issues that effect
the operation and security of the major backbone providers and their routers.
Multicast - or Mbone (which actually means the experimental part of Multicast
routing) plays just a minor part in today's routing issues. It was agreed that
The Mbone-WG for now shall be a permanent item on the Routing-WG agenda. The
Mbone Working Group might be revived again when the community desires it.
Archive
of the messages received on the Mbone mailing list. The mailing list of the
RIPE MBONE Working Group has been archived since july 1995.
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