Re: ipv4 multicast address ranges, actual usage.

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:01:28 +0000
Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote:

> "to what extent are the various allocations in the 232/8 to 238/8
> range actually used today, and for what?"
> 
> The "for what" portion of the question was: what applications today
> actually use GLOP? or RFC6038? or SSM?

I think IETF RFC 6308 is the correct reference.

I can only tell you that we (DePaul AS 2013) no longer use any
IP multicast addresses outside of the organization local scope block
239.192.0.0/14. We used to have some applications uses our associated
GLOP prefix, but those are long gone and in fact we've ceased all
inter-AS IP multicast connectivity as of a few years ago.

I also happen to know Northwestern (AS 103) no longer distributes C-SPAN
onto the multicast-enabled Internet and hasn't for a long time, that
was using GLOP addressing.  One of the few R&E Internet-wide
applications I even recall hearing of that may have be in one of these
prefixes is some sort of oceanic-related project.

Not a lot of evidence of much, but hopefully small anecdotes are better
than silence.

John

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