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[Greg Shepherd <>]

lol!

hear hear!!!

Greg

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Lea Roberts wrote:

> maybe you need to change the acronym so that
> ASM is "Ancient Standard Multicast"  ??  :-)
>
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Greg Shepherd wrote:
>
> > Please recall how the term ASM came into
> > use. We were looking for a way to describe the current deployed
> > interdomain mcast Internet. Some suggestions were Deering Mcast, Internet
> > Standard Mcast.. Any Source Mcast won the final vote, but the term 'Any'
> > seems to include bidir as well, even though that was not part of the
> > original discussion.
> >
> > So our attempt to clarify terms for discussion didn't do as good a job as
> > was hoped. Kinda' par for mcast as a whole, don't you think? ;););)
>
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