--- 1/draft-ietf-mboned-dc-deploy-00.txt 2013-08-22 17:14:23.821662547 -0700 +++ 2/draft-ietf-mboned-dc-deploy-01.txt 2013-08-22 17:14:23.845663175 -0700 @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ Internet Engineering Task Force M. McBride Internet-Draft Huawei Technologies -Intended status: Informational February 18, 2013 -Expires: August 22, 2013 +Intended status: Informational August 23, 2013 +Expires: February 24, 2014 Multicast in the Data Center Overview - draft-ietf-mboned-dc-deploy-00 + draft-ietf-mboned-dc-deploy-01 Abstract There has been much interest in issues surrounding massive amounts of hosts in the data center. These issues include the prevalent use of IP Multicast within the Data Center. Its important to understand how IP Multicast is being deployed in the Data Center to be able to understand the surrounding issues with doing so. This document provides a quick survey of uses of multicast in the data center and should serve as an aid to further discussion of issues related to @@ -25,21 +25,21 @@ Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." - This Internet-Draft will expire on August 22, 2013. + This Internet-Draft will expire on February 24, 2014. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents @@ -86,32 +86,33 @@ survey of multicast in the data center and should serve as an aid to further discussion of issues related to multicast in the data center. ARP/ND issues are not addressed in this document except to explain how address resolution occurs with multicast. 2. Multicast Applications in the Data Center There are many data center operators who do not deploy Multicast in their networks for scalability and stability reasons. There are also - many operators for whom multicast is critical and is enabled on their - data center switches and routers. For this latter group, there are - several uses of multicast in their data centers. An understanding of - the uses of that multicast is important in order to properly support - these applications in the ever evolving data centers. If, for - instance, the majority of the applications are discovering/signaling - each other, using multicast, there may be better ways to support them - then using multicast. If, however, the multicasting of data is - occurring in large volumes, there is a need for good data center - overlay multicast support. The applications either fall into the - category of those that leverage L2 multicast for discovery or of - those that require L3 support and likely span multiple subnets. + many operators for whom multicast is a critical protocol within their + network and is enabled on their data center switches and routers. + For this latter group, there are several uses of multicast in their + data centers. An understanding of the uses of that multicast is + important in order to properly support these applications in the ever + evolving data centers. If, for instance, the majority of the + applications are discovering/signaling each other, using multicast, + there may be better ways to support them then using multicast. If, + however, the multicasting of data is occurring in large volumes, + there is a need for good data center overlay multicast support. The + applications either fall into the category of those that leverage L2 + multicast for discovery or of those that require L3 support and + likely span multiple subnets. 2.1. Client-Server Applications IPTV servers use multicast to deliver content from the data center to end users. IPTV is typically a one to many application where the hosts are configured for IGMPv3, the switches are configured with IGMP snooping, and the routers are running PIM-SSM mode. Often redundant servers are sending multicast streams into the network and the network is forwarding the data across diverse paths. @@ -421,21 +423,21 @@ Anoop Ghanwani, Peter Ashwoodsmith, David Allan, Aldrin Isaac, Igor Gashinsky, Michael Smith, Patrick Frejborg, Joel Jaeggli and Thomas Narten. 9. IANA Considerations This memo includes no request to IANA. 10. Security Considerations - No security considerations at this time. + No new security considerations result from this document 11. Informative References [I-D.armd-problem-statement] Narten, T., Karir, M., and I. Foo, "draft-ietf-armd-problem-statement", February 2012. [I-D.pim-umf-problem-statement] Zhou, D., Deng, H., Shi, Y., Liu, H., and I. Bhattacharya, "draft-dizhou-pim-umf-problem-statement", October 2010.