The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Simplified Multicast Forwarding' (draft-ietf-manet-smf-14.txt) as an Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Stewart Bryant. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-smf/ Technical Summary This document specifies some simple mechanisms to distribute multicast data packets within a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). This document provides basic and simple multicast forwarding that can complement the on-going unicast routing protocol efforts of the MANET working group. Additionally, this document describes several different reduced relay set algorithms that can be used to make multicast dissemination more efficient. Working Group Summary There were no issues in the WG process. The I-D has progressed very slowly since WG lsat call as updates to address WG last call comments and to satisfy AD review have been slow. Protocol Quality This is intended for publication as an Experimental RFC. Several interoperable implementations of SMF exist; although only one is available. Note: that several of the methods laid out in SMF have been included in many MANET protocols and their implementations. Personnel Stan Ratliff (sratliff@cisco.com) is the Document Shepherd Adrian Farrel (adrian@olddog.co.uk) is the Responsible AD
