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["ken (k.g.) hayward" <crm57d@bnr.ca>]

In off-list email, at least one person has noticed that my vocal support 
for MCS as a required possibility for multicast support (not in 
opposition to also allowing full mesh where desired) had not been as 
apparent recently on the list. Almost always, any technical point I 
would make has been made by others before me. But perhaps it is time to 
say that as a user shop with hundreds of large IP LIS in terms of number 
of hosts for what our Information Technology people assure me are good 
reasons, I still fully support that any LIS solution must scale to > 100 
hosts, although I'd be willing to limit to < 1000. And my technical 
opinion is that MCS is better than full mesh at meeting our company's 
needs.

I know that that is just one user company's data point. But 
organizations built on consensus need to hear from users on both sides 
of this discussion.

Ken.Hayward@bnr.ca Bell-Northern Research, a Northern Telecom company