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[asmith@Baynetworks.COM (Andrew Smith)]

> From owner-ip-atm@nexen.com Tue Mar 26 11:41:05 1996
> To: ip-atm@nexen.com
> Cc: gja@thumper.bellcore.com
> Subject: Re: Multicast Servers for use with MARS 
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:35:02 -0500
> From: Grenville Armitage <gja@bellcore.com>

Grenville,

> ipmc-12 contains MARS<->client (host/router interface) spec.

This is the one we have to get right first time! (along with MCS<->client).

> ipmc-12 contains a fairly basic MARS<->MCS spec.

This one we can afford to make a few mistakes on, although it would
be nice if it supported redundancy, at least, if not load-sharing.

> Interestingly, ipmc-12 also currently mandates that there
> shall be _no more than one MCS_ per group. 

Is this relevant to the MARS<->client and/or MCS<->client interfaces?
Or is it just MARS<->MCS? (I guess I'd better go figure that one
out myself).


Andrew

> 
> cheers,
> gja


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