Laugh test: Multicast Last-Mile Solutions BOF

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

FYI below.

The subject has been under discussion for a long time. It seems that
we now have some understanding on how to approach the problem and the
multicast folks are willing to talk constructively.

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Alex
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This is a forwarded message
From: Greg Shepherd <shep@procket.com>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
Cc: agenda@ietf.org, Keyur Patel <keyupate@cisco.com>, Greg Shepherd <shep@procket.com>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2003, 12:12:17 PM
Subject: BOF request - Multicast Last-Mile Solutions

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a. Multicast Last-Mile BOF request - protocol name and acronym TBD.

b. Routing Area

c. Key participants are are leaving Vienna on Thursday, so a timeslot
early in the week is prefered.

d. 50 attendees

e. Multicast sourcing of this BOF would be valuable

f. one slot

g. 2 hours


Description and Agenda:

Successful content distribution business plans have been hampered by the
all-or-nothing nature of a multicast routed infrastructure. Several drafts
have arisen over the past few years to address the last-mile multicast
deployment gap, but have all lost momentum for various reasons. Recent
efforts on yet another draft have revealed the need to have all affected
parties participate in the effort in order to provide a comprehensive yet
simple and deployable solution.

Agenda
 1. Agenda Bashing (all)
 2. Problem description (shep)
 3. Overview of relevant work to date (shep)
        http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/last-mile
 4. Outline of design objectives (shep)
 5. Discussion of current gaps and future direction (all)

Thanks,
Greg



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