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[Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.dat.tele.fi>]

right, but at least the solution would be independent of higher layer
protocols so that not every application would need to invent their own
multicast server.

   You don't have to take the store-and-forward delay all the time, 
   just when there is another packet already using the outgoing VC.

   You can forward the first packet cell at a time.  If a second packet 
   arrives, you buffer it until the first packet ends. 

this sounds dangerous to me.  if you have a slow speed source, do you
really want to start sending its cells out before the whole packet is in
the buffer and thus potentially create a head-of-the-line blocking
problem?

-- juha