Re: Constraints for multicast

Yves Lafon <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:31:05 +0200 (MEST)
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.distributed
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, David Hull wrote:

> This is certainly not the intent of the proposed text.  To take an
> example, if I send email to {[email protected], [email protected]},
> that would be two instances of the MEP.  If I send email to
> {[email protected]}, that would be one instance, just as if I sent to
> {[email protected]}.  In other words, there is exactly one
> ImmediateDestination per MEP instance, just as the table says.

A mailing list address is far different from a multicast group, in the 
case of a ML, you send a message to a kind of "replicator", ie: processing 
is done, and you can see it (in the headers). I would recommend strongly 
against trying to accomodate multicast and one way unicast in the same MEP.

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