Subject: [[email-masked]: IMPORTANT IMI SURVEY! Please respond by Friday]

From: Dino Farinacci <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:39:11 -0800

Please respond to Vicki.

Dino

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IP Multicast Initiative Charter Member Survey (10/22/96)

The following survey will take about 10 minutes of your time.  Please
respond by 
Friday (10/25/96) and send replies to [email-masked].  If you can't
readily 
answer a question, just give your best guess.

We are seeking information about the technical challenges faced by vendors
and 
buyers of IP multicast products and services. This survey will help shape and 
focus IMI technology-awareness programs, such as the selection of white paper 
topics and event agendas.

1. Please estimate the percentage of your customers requesting multicast 
support: 	1995 _____     1996  ____        1997  _____	   1998  _____

2. Do your customers regard IP multicast to be "mature" at present?

3. Which technical aspects of IP multicast do your customers find hard to 
understand?        (1 = lowest rank, 5 = highest rank)

Routing protocols
Transport protocols
Interoperability 
Quality of service mechanisms and arbitration
Real-time support
Desktop support
Usefulness of existing multicast applications
Development of new multicast-enabled applications
Billing/chargeback mechanisms and policies
Security
Reliable transmission
Diagnostic tools
Bandwidth requirements
Network engineering prerequisites
Network administration
Impact on existing traffic
Scalability

Other:

4. Please describe difficulties in the above areas which most hinder sales
of your 
products and/or services.

5.  Which of the above areas pose the greatest implementation challenges to
your 
product/service engineering staff?

6a. Is your company actively involved in IETF efforts related to multicast?
6b. Is your company on the Mbone?
6c. Is the Mbone relevant to your company's products or services?  Why?

7. How do you demonstrate your IP multicast products and/or services?

8. How important is the deployment of IP multicast to your company's plans
for 
the following:
Intranets  ____		Internet  ____	Private WAN's (Extranets)  ____	

9a.  Do you run IP multicast in-house on your company intranet?    
9b.  If so, what are the benefits to your company?  
9c.  If so, what impact has it had on your network?

Stardust may decide to post some of the survey responses on the IMI
website.   
Do you wish your responses to be treated as anonymous, or may we associate 
them with your company?

Thanks very much!

***************** Stardust Technologies, Inc.*******************
     	Home of the Stardust WinSock Labs 
 	and the IP Multicast Initiative
                  
Vicki Johnson, Technologist                    Tel  408/879-8080
1901 Bascom Ave Suite #333                     Fax  408/879-8081
Campbell, CA 95008                     email [email-masked] 
www.stardust.com