The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Overview of the Internet Multicast Routing Architecture ' <draft-ietf-mboned-routingarch-12.txt> as an Informational RFC This memo reclassifies as HISTORIC the following RFCs: 3913,2189,2201,1584 This document is the product of the MBONE Deployment Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ron Bonica and Dan Romascanu. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-routingarch-12.txt * Technical Summary The lack of up-to-date documentation on IP multicast routing protocols and procedures has caused a great deal of confusion. To clarify the situation, this memo describes the routing protocols and techniques currently (as of this writing) in use. This memo also obsoletes and reclassifies to Historic a number of older multicast protocols. * Working Group Summary There was not any controversy about this document. There are not many comments on the ML but none of the comments are negative. * Protocol Quality This document surveys the currently proposed/used protocols but it does not propose any new protocol. 1.j) Please provide such a write-up. Recent examples can be found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. 1.k) Note: * The relevant information for the technical summary can frequently be found in the abstract and/or introduction of the document. If not, this may be an indication that there are deficiencies in the abstract or introduction. * For the Working Group Summary: Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there controversy about particular points, decisions where consensus was particularly rough, etc. * For the protocol quality, useful information includes: + Are there existing implementations of the protocol? + Have a significant number of vendors indicated they plan to implement the specification? * RFC Editor Note Please publish this draft as INFORMATIONAL _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
