[ghpn-wg] netissues and multicast

[Franco Travostino]

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No doubt, the community is progressing in the understanding of network 
requirements posed by the Grid, while networking research continues to 
offer new capabilities ... therefore, it is well worth to a) track all 
updates to the netissues-4 draft and b) batch them into a substantial new 
release, which will obsolete GFD.37 and will appear 1 year or 18 months 
from now. As well, it is possible to create a companion document capturing 
a deeper dive into one of the subject areas (e.g., multicast for the Grid).

-franco



At 06:11 AM 11/25/2004, Volker Sander wrote:
>I think we can submit a new document that replaces/outdates the
>existing one. I guess we should take the time to produce a substantially 
>improved
>version
>
>
>Franco, Jon: What do you think?
>
>
>Volker
>
>Marinho P Barcellos schrieb:
>>
>>Hello all
>>
>>
>>>
>>>On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:37, Volker Sander wrote:
>>>All:
>>>I just got the mail that the original version is approved for
>>>publication (GFD-I.37). I propose to continue with our editing and
>>>create a secind version
>>>that includes the discussed changes and potentially more.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Volker, how does this work? I don't know exactly what it means to have the
>>document "approved", then my question is: is it possible to evolve the
>>document to incorporate required corrections, recommended improvements
>>and contents and style, and optional additions?
>>
>>On Friday 19 November 2004 14:44, Volker Sander wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>yes, I was also thinking about adding Marinho to the list of authors,
>>>so i am with your proposal
>>>
>>
>>
>>I acknowledge that, thank you.
>>
>>On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:07, Marco Tana wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Because of I posted material about multicast too, I'd like to consider
>>>Marinho's proposal related to an integration about current
>>>implementations (MDP, NORM, etc.). So if you agree I can do this job
>>>with him as a first step of revision.
>>>I'll come back to my office next Tuesday...so I look forward to reading
>>>your remarks and, possibly, the comments addressing plan.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Marco should be back to office now and we will discuss the part about
>>multicast. Could you please get in touch, Marco?
>>
>>Regards, Marinho.
>>
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>>Prof. Marinho P. Barcellos (marinho at acm dot org)
>>University of Manchester and BT Research Labs/UK
>>On leave from UNISINOS University, Brazil
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