Subject: Multicast vs. unicast

From: [email-masked] (Kevin Dubray)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:42:38 -0500

Thanks for your comments to the multicast questions.  There is
definitely some common lines of thought here.  I'll try to 
reflect those in the next draft.

It was suggested that it might be worthwhile to articulate the
factors that make multicast performance benchmarking different than 
its unicast analog.

Some factors may include Multicast routing protocol, topology (e.g. number
of destination ports, groups, etc.), (*,g) & (s,g) relationships, and 
link/utilization overload conditions.  

If you think that there are other considerations that distinguish multicast 
from unicast benchmarks, please drop a note.  

Thanks,
Kevin