Given the discussion currently taking place, I thought the following
might be of interest...
-Allen
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>CONTROLLING TRAFFIC ON THE NET
>Cisco Systems, along with Sun Microsystems, Informix Corp., Netcom Online
>Communication Services and others, is backing technology developed by Tibco
>Inc. that is designed to ease data gridlock on the Internet. Tibco's
>technology moves an e-mail message through the Internet pipeline, and then
>replicates it at the end of the process for multiple distribution, rather
>than the current broadcasting system that simultaneously sends thousands of
>messages to thousands of individuals. The consortium plans to submit a
>proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force next year to adopt Tibco's
>technology as a nonproprietary standard. "We're trying to solve the
>mass-market dissemination problem," says Cisco's chief technology officer.
>"If you replicate things 100,000 times or a million times, the Internet
>dies. It's as simple as that." (Wall Street Journal 9 Dec 96 B8)
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