[9974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Livingston & BGP & multicast USENET (was blah blah blah)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Tue Jun 10 08:11:01 1997
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:28:24 -0400
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 11:21 PM 6/9/97 -0400, Sean M. Doran wrote:
[snip]
>> > Will IP multicast help with the usenet stuff?
>>
>> Tangental question.
>
>Kurt Lidl and company's excellent MUSE paper, presented at
>USENIX in Winter 1994 details early attempts to distribute
>news via the MBONE.
>
>
[snip]
>On the final hand, NNTP distribution is much less broken
>than Web distribution, and the latter distribution problem
>probably deserves to be attacked first.
>
Just released yesterday:
A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast.
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-rfced-exp-rupp-01.txt
Eric
