Multicast address allocation service

[Robert Olson]

sounds good to me.

At 08:09 AM 12/11/2002 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>Right, that's a matter of configuring the service.
>
>--Ivan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:34 AM
> > To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: Multicast address allocation service
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this ...
> >
> > the venue shouldn't know if the allocator is acting randomly
> > or out of a pool?
> >
> > At 12:04 AM 12/11/2002 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > >It's probably a better idea to have venues ask for addresses through
> > >some single "get new address" method rather than expose via the name
> > >whether they are asking for a random or range address. The
> > venue should
> > >never care, it's just an address.
> >
> >