Subject: Re: how about applying multicast to email routing

From: Jon Crowcroft <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:36:52 +0100

In message <[email-masked]>, Kyungran Kang ty
ped:
 
 >>Have you ever thought or tried applying multicast to email routing?

yes - we have an implementation - atanu ghosh was here at UCL, now at
UTS, in Oz - 

see
ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/mmd.ps.Z
for a paper about it - the code is available...

multicast News NNTP ideas have been discussed quite
constructively in the IETF

 >>Email server suffers from mailing lists which have a lot of members.
 >>As far as I know, email routing is unicast-based. If multicast is applied to
 >>email routing, the email server only have to transmit message just once
 >>regardless of the number of list members. Multicast tree can be built when
 >>the first message is delivered. Tree can be updated on demand and new 
 >>member can be added by IGMP-like manner. 
 >>
 >>It will be different from IP multicast routing. But the idea of IP multicast routing
 >>can be deployed to email routing. 
 >>
 >>I'd like to listen your opinion. 

contact atanu for the code ( Atanu Ghosh <[email-masked]>

 cheers

   jon