Jiwoong,
I remember it was historic reason why we have discussed XCAST
in Routing Area. In the IETF on Washington DC in 1999, I, Wim
and Rick started to work on unified XCAST protocol. At that
time, Dave Oran, the past routing area director, managed to
find "new multicast approach" and that was a major topic of
the routing area meeting in Washington DC. We had a short time
slot to show our approach with a couple of slides.
In next IETF meeting in Adelaide, MADDOGS(Multicast
Directorate) held organized by routing area
co-directors. XCAST team had a chance to make longer
presentation. As we could get interests from attendant to some
degree, we had a first BoF in Pittsburgh under routing area.
After BoF we discussed with both of routing area directors and
Internet area directors. In that meeting, someone make same
question as you. "Routing Area is good area for XCAST?"
I consider Internet area may be better because we already have
several topic that seems not the routing topic, for example
XCAST+, XCAST over Ethernet and SIP for XCAST.
But we had to negotiate with IESG. Before they forget what is
the XCAST. :-)
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Yuji
From: "Jiwoong Lee" <porce(_at_)ktf(_dot_)com>
Subject: Does Xcast belong to Routing Area ?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:10:18 +0900
One thought came to my mind; Xcast may belong to Internet Area, rather than
Routing Area.
Stateless characteristic of Xcast, and therefore signal-less characteristic
of Xcast may be connected to the basic architecturing of the original
Internet.
BTW does somebody know what exactly Internet Area is ? Plz leave a good url.
Jiwoong