Title of Deliverable: Report on Using Multipoint Applications over Ssm Reviewers: Executive Summary Table of Contents

In order to deploy multiparty applications using SSM, we not only need routers running SSM and hosts running MLDv2, but we must also consider some issues: We show that an architecture such as sas allows to keep a global session announcement a la SAP using SSM in the inter-domain. We evaluate ssmsdp and show that it is a viable architecture for discovering dynamic sources in a multiparty session using SSM. We also evaluate some mechanisms for congestion control in unidirectional multicast application. Finally we discuss some tools such as ssmping and dbeacon that can help users and administrators when running SSM applications.