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. :-) ---- Yuji From: "Jiwoong Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > >
