[SAM] SAM Overlay Protocol

[John Buford]

Hi Matthias,
Isn't "overlay group address" somewhat circular?
Could you explain in more detail the problem with the current
text?  Are you saying there are instances where the groupId isn't
the root of the tree?
Thanks,
John

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Matthias Waehlisch <waehlisch at ieee.org>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>  just one short remark to draft-buford-irtf-sam-overlay-protocol-01.txt:
>
>  The GroupId in the tree lifecycle messages identifies "the overlay
> address of the root of the tree". Although the term is almost used in this
> sense, it is not true in general. Two examples: CAN multicast and the
> prefix-based bidirectional shared tree approach, which we presented in
> Chicago.
>
>  Maybe we can rename the description to "the overlay group address".
>
>
> Cheers
>  matthias
>
>
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