Re: Livingston & BGP & multicast USENET (was blah blah blah)

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

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