Re: Multicast requirements

Hi Juan Carlos,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Zuniga, Juan Carlos
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe the purpose of the discussion was to propose some requirement
> text for draft-ietf-dmm-requirements, rather than getting in the
> solution space. I propose the following:
>

Absolutely, let's not lose time on this.

> Requirement: DMM solutions SHOULD support multicast services. In case
> the solution
>           does not address multicast, a justification MUST be provided
> for the
>           omission of multicast from the solution.

OK.

Justification could be out of scope.

>
> Motivation: The purpose of this requirement is to encourage people to
>           consider the impacts of running multicast services in a DMM
> environment
>           from the beginning of the development, thereby avoiding the
> need to
>           make protocol extensions in the future to support this kind of
>           functionality.
>

Agreed.



Regards,

Behcet