Subject: [dnssd] Fwd: multicast over wifi discussion list

From: Tim Chown <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:24:35 +0000

Hi,

See Mikael’s email below, which is relevant to us given Stuart’s presentation on yesterday (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sctl-service-registration-00).

Tim 

> On 19 Jul 2017, at 17:57, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please forward this if there are other parties or WGs that might have valuable knowledge in this.
> 
> 1.5 years ago there was an email list created to discuss the issue of L1/L2 multicast packets having different delivery characteristics compared to unicast, on 802.11 and potentially other places.
> 
> http://www.ieee802.org/11/email/stds-802-11/msg01838.html
> 
> If you're interested in discussion on possible solution space for this, please consider subscribing. Possible outcomes is that IETF will re-design protocols to do less multicast, and/or new mechanisms would be proposed to make 802.11 (and other similar technologies) handle multicast better.
> 
> There was a side meeting today with 10 people where this was discussed, and we're trying to restart this discussion, as it has been kind of stale the past year.
> 
> Link to the email I sent to that list:
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> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mcast-wifi/muf8GqcTRzQubgHI-uc90aIC2YY
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email-masked]
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