Kurt Lidl and company's excellent MUSE paper, presented at
USENIX in Winter 1994 details early attempts to distribute
news via the MBONE.
[snip]
On the final hand, NNTP distribution is much less broken
than Web distribution, and the latter distribution problem
probably deserves to be attacked first.
Just released yesterday:
A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast.
Actually this is a quite horrible protocol. It is not reliable and you
still need to run regular news feeds. If anyone is really interested in
writing a good reliable multicast new protocol I suggest you read this
internet draft:
Title : The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) Framework
Author(s) : J. Macker, W. Dang
Filename : draft-macker-mdp-framework-02.txt
Pages : 14
And while at it someone write something better than INND. This bag of
c programs, shell, awk, and sed scripts needs to be put to rest. Cheers.
Eric
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% If anyone is really interested in writing a good reliable multicast
% new protocol I suggest you read this internet draft:
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% Title : The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) Framework
% Author(s) : J. Macker, W. Dang
% Filename : draft-macker-mdp-framework-02.txt
% Pages : 14
% Date : 06/06/1997
Someone suggested in private email that I should provide a full
reference for the prior art on USENET/IP-Multicast back to the NANOG
list.
Here it is. However, this thread probably should migrate to some other
(more appropriate) place like the mboned list and off of NANOG...