Dear colleagues, there were two proposals to discuss multicast issues in the Routing WG. Christian Panigl wrote:

How about integrating the multicast routing issues into the Routing-WG agenda ? And still, if there's some specific action item on multicast routing and/or Mbone coordination we could establish a task-force within the Routing-WG. And as Tiziana wrote, multicast routing should become a natural service in the european backbones, at least very soon.

and then Thomas Telkamp added:

Integrating these routing issues in the Routing-WG might help to keep focus. I absolutely think the interest of the community in this is still there.

Kurt, at least we have an agenda topic for next meeting ;-)

I do not have any objections to discuss multicast routing in the Routing-WG. As far as I see from current planning (not yet on RIPE web site) the MBone session comes after the Routing WG session. So we will not have a clash if we share the topic. However, I would like to suggest that in order to properly deal with the topic that we take this as input to the Routing WG. I would then require a short presentation from you - if someone is interested to give a sketch of the ideas (no solutions yet; they still need to be developed, obviously ;-) I greatly appreciate it. Please write back to me for proposals. Thanks a lot Joachim --- JS395-RIPE -- standard disclaimer ---