2.3.11 Multicast & Anycast Group Membership (magma)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 58th IETF Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2003-10-16

Chair(s):
Isidor Kouvelas <kouvelas@cisco.com>
Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net>
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Margaret Wasserman <margaret.wasserman@nokia.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Margaret Wasserman <margaret.wasserman@nokia.com>
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Description of Working Group:
Group management protocols are crucial to the operation of multicast within the Internet, and there are some benefits in extending group management protocols to also be able to support anycast. These protocols allow hosts to inform routers of their membership status within groups. This working group will be responsible for developing the functionalities required for group membership reporting and other related actions. This group will also address the initial authentication and access control issues associated with anycast group membership; this is likely to be limited to shared secrets and message authentication codes (MACs) much like current routing protocol security. Other aspects of Anycast, including architecture and routing, are outside the groups scope.

The draft names listed below are the starting point for the work in the WG.

MAGMA specifications will include:

- Core IGMPv3/MLDv2 specifications. These specifications will describe the protocol used between hosts and routers to share group membership information. IGMPv3 and MLDv2 build on IGMPv2 and MLDv1 by adding two types of source-specific filtering; "include" (in which the system tells the router exactly which sources it desires) and "exclude" (in which the system tells the router that it does *not* desire a list of sources).

- IGMPv3: The IDMR working group has submitted this for Proposed Standard. MAGMA takes ownership after publication as RFC.

- MLDv2: draft-vida-mld-v2-00.txt

- Multicast Source Filtering API. This specification describes the API used to interact with IGMPv3 and MLDv2 to indicate source filters. - draft-ietf-idmr-msf-api-01.txt

- Host determination of network group membership. In a multicast environment, systems may be interested in learning whether or not there are any group members, in order to save the trouble of sending data that nobody is listening to.

- Multicast Source Notification of Interest Protocol: draft-ietf-idmr-msnip-00

- Multicast forwarding in tree topologies using IGMP/MLD Proxying - Create a single document from: - draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-proxy-00

- draft-he-mixed-igmp-proxy-00

- Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) consideration document. This work will describe the use of IGMPv3/MLDv2 in an SSM environment. - draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-01.txt

- Considerations for "IGMP snooping" switches (switches that watch IGMP exchanges in order to determine multicast forwarding behavior)

- Multicast Router Discovery: The IDMR working group has submitted this for Proposed Standard. MAGMA takes ownership after publication as RFC. - Snooping Considerations: draft-ietf-idmr-snoop-00.txt

- Group management MIBs - update RFC 2933 for IGMPv3 - update RFC 3019 for MLDv2

- Interaction between IGMP/MLD and routing protocols - draft-ietf-idmr-igmpv3-and-routing-00.txt

- Extensions to MLD supporting anycast group memberships including authentication and access control mechanisms - draft-haberman-ipngwg-host-anycast-00.txt

In addition, this working group will coordinate with other IETF working groups where multicast and anycast group management protocols are utilized as well as coordinating with the Multicast Security WG.

Goals and Milestones:
Done  Submit IGMPv3/MLDv2 Interfactions with Routing Protocols as Informational
Done  Submit IGMP/MLD Proxying Specification as Proposed Standard
Done  Submit IGMP & MLD Snooping Considerations as Informational
Done  Submit SSM considerations for IGMPv3 & MLDv2 as Proposed Standard
Done  Submit Multicast Source Filtering API as Informational
Dec 03  Submit MSNIP for IPv4 & IPv6 Specification as Proposed Standard
Dec 03  Submit IGMPv3/MLDv2 MIB as Proposed Standard
Internet-Drafts:
  • - draft-ietf-magma-msf-api-05.txt
  • - draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-05.txt
  • - draft-vida-mld-v2-07.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-igmpv3-and-routing-05.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-snoop-09.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-igmp-proxy-04.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-mrdssm-03.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-msnip-04.txt
  • - draft-ietf-magma-mgmd-mib-01.txt
  • Request For Comments:
    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC3228BCPIANA Considerations for IGMP
    RFC3590 PS Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol

    Current Meeting Report

    .Minutes for IETF 58 MAGMA Working Group meeting taken by Tom Pusateri
    <pusateri@juniper.net>
    Chairs: Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> and Isidor Kouvelas
    <kouvelas@cisco.com>
    
    
    Magma met on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 in Minneapolis, MN.
    
    
    The Agenda included:
    1. Document status updates
    2. SSM Administratively Scoped range
    3. Updates on the Group Management MIB
    4. Updates on the Multicast Router Discovery staus
    
    
    Isidor Kouvelas
            Source Address selection for MLD has been assigned RFC 3590.
                Way to go Brian!
            draft-ietf-magma-msf-api-05.txt in RFC editor queue
            MLDv2 draft-vida-mld-v2-07.txt in IESG evaluation
                revised ID due to address minor comments
                The document that gives IANA guidelines on assigning IPv6 ICMP 
    messages wasn't clear so still need an IANA number.
            MIB comments to come later in the day on Tuesday.
            
            Document on considerations for snooping switches
                    draft-ietf-magma-snoop-10.txt
                    addressing security concerns from Steve Bellovin
            SSM - 
    draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-05.txt
                Hugh needs to address comments by Peka
            Would like people to go to SSM to share thoughts on 
    Administratively Scoped SSM.
    
    
    Brian Haberman
            Spoke for Julian Chesterfield in his best British accent.
                recently released -02 version of Group Management MIB
                draft-ietf-magma-mgmd-mib-01.txt
                includes feedback from Dave Thaler.
                requests help on Security Considerations section
    
    
    Dave Thaler
            Still need to clarify mgmdHostInterfaceVersion in MIB.
            They have received requests and implemented a knob for an upper 
    bound on the IGMP host version to allow forcing IGMP version 2.
            He mentioned that many of the snooping switches didn't yet 
    support IGMP v3 snooping and this was affecting his customers.
    
    
    Brian Haberman
            Multicast Router Discovery 
    draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mrdisc-10.txt
                Still needs some IPv6 work.
                Ask to move it from IDMR to MAGMA. WG decided to accept this.
    
    
    Hugh Hollbrook
            Hugh asked how eliminating something in Multicast Router 
    Discovery helps MSNIP
    
    
    Isidor Kouvelas
            Isidor said it was hard to answer off the top of his head and that 
    this would be discussed on the mailing list. 

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