Re: mboned: RE: suggestion for simplifying IGMPV3/MLDV2 to discard EXCLUDEmode

Hitoshi Asaeda wrote:
>> I think that the way to do this might be to
>> create a profile for "IGMPv3 lite" which does not do (S,G) excludes  
>> for ASM.
> 
> Maybe it might be my proposal sent to mboned ML on the 9th of Aug
> 2005.
> 
>> Clearly, as Dave Thaler said at the last IETF, anything that's done  
>> has to interoperate with
>> equipment that implement the full IGMPv3. I worry that if nothing is  
>> done here,
>> there will emerge a range of partial implementations, which may not  
>> all interoperate.
> 
> Right. It may be possible if we carefully support the interoperation
> between full version and Lite.

Yes, it must be done carefully (if we decide to do so, I'm not really
arguing for change). I'm aware of one partial implementation causing
some problems already.

Stig

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