- From: Philipp Hoschka <Philipp.Hoschka@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:04:45 +0100
- To: www-multimedia@www10.w3.org
This may interest some of you: ------- Forwarded Message From: Bernard Aboba <aboba@internaut.com> To: "'rem-conf@es.net'" <rem-conf@es.net> Subject: New mailing list on multicasting of Web content Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 06:51:48 -0800 Encoding: 45 TEXT Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2296 Status: O X-Status: X-UID: 70 New mailing list on multicasting Web content A new mailing list has been set up for discussing the distribution of Web content via "unreliable multicast." To subscribe, send a message to "www-multicast-request@w3.org", and put "subscribe" in the subject line. The archive of the mailing list is available as http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-multicast/, and the FTP server (used for archiving of related documents) is available at ftp://ftp.zilker.net/pub/mailcom/WWW-MULTICAST/. The primary initial goals of this list will be to produce an Internet Draft reviewing existing implementations of unreliable multicasting of Web content, as well as a draft reviewing potential applications and their requirements. Should an IETF working group be formed in this area, it is envisioned that this list would subsequently be used for discussions relating to working group business. Many Web sites that distribute popular, frequently updated content experience problems with "flash crowds": thousands of access per minute to the same Web page overload the Web server or the network link leading to the server. It is possible that integrating IP multicast with the transport protocol used by the Web (HTTP) may solve this problem. This mailing list focusses on unreliable multicasting of Web content due to the current immaturity of reliable multicast protocols (see "IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols", A. Mankin, A. Romanow, 11/27/1996 (ftp://ietf.org/Internet-drafts/draft-mankin-reliable-multicast-00.txt).). Reliable multicast protocols will be dealt with by a research group within the IRTF (Internet Research Task Force). Unreliable multicast is better understood. Moreover, there is considerable interest in the Web community to use this technology, both to solve serious existing operational problems like "flash crowds", and to avoid creating new problems due to "server push" applications. Several applications (i.e. cache stuffing) appear to be naturally amenable to use of unreliable multicast. Thus, moving ahead on unreliable webcasting will serve to advance these applications as well as to potentially provide short-term solutions for other applications. The newly created mailing list will focus on these solutions. ------- End of Forwarded Message
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