All things related to multicast

["Jill Gemmill" <>]

Kevin -
        There seems to be something missing between "backbone engineers" and
"neophytes".

        What good does it do to deliver multicast to a campus when the campus 
network
is not engineered to handle delivery of that traffic?  Is anyone doing 
something
that is working?  What approaches to this problem exist?  What are the local
engineering/technical issues?

        I am a member of ViDe; some of my fellow committee members are 
convinced that
practical delivery of multicast will NEVER work.  I don't happen to agree with
them, but I don't see anything proposed here that would make them want to
reconsider.

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  > Subject: Multicast-related meetings in Seattle
  >
  >
  >
  > There is currently a multicast working group meeting scheduled
  > for Seattle on Monday (10/11) from 10am to Noon (location to
  > be announced).  There are actually two meetings, but the first
  > is to discuss the following:
  >
  > * Technical items including status of backbone deployment,
  > * address scoping and group control, monitoring and managing multicast
  > * traffic, establishing backbone peering relationships, etc.
  >
  > The target audience is primarily the engineering folk.
  >
  > If anyone has a specific topic (listed above or otherwise) they'd
  > like to lead the discussion/handling/resolution of please let me
  > know.
  > ------------
  >
  > There is a second meeting is Tuesday 11:30am - 12:20pm and this one
  > is more for multicast neophytes.  A status of multicast in Internet2
  > will be presented.  Experts and engineers are certainly encouraged to
  > attend and contribute.
  >
  > -Kevin
  >