Re: small group replication service, application-level multicast etc.

Actually, the Swarmcast system that we developed in late 1999 utilized 
Forward Error Correction combined with peer-to-peer (end-system) 
multicast to overcome the first-mile bottleneck in systems like this.

I'd be happy to discuss this approach off-line with anyone that is 
interested.

Thanks,

-Justin

> 
> This problem of maintaining multicast state can be minimized in an
> end-system multicast scheme if the multicast state is kept only in the
> end-systems of the meeting participants.  But this approach doesn't seem
> appropriate if we have limited bandwidth in the first mile (see problem
> statement above).
> 

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