Applications for SSM
Attractive for Internet-wide broadcast-style applications:
- Well known sources, very static
- Primary targets for DoS attacks
- Current problems with address availability
Impossible for SSM:
- Resource discovery style applications
Not useful with SSM:
- Everything that should use “shared-tree” forwarding (Many Sources, frequently changing sources)
Others:
- How difficult is source-discovery for an application ?
- How useful is it to do it for the benefits of SSM ?