[AG-TECH] Multicast Address Use in AG2

[Ivan R. Judson]

The Venue Server will support static addressing. You are welcome (and
encouraged) to run a venue server configured whatever way you'd like.  Just
remember, addresses might get scarce before we move to IPv6 and it's a best
practices area.  We all have to do our best with resource stewardship.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:21 AM
> To: 'Sergeant A. G. Tech'
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Multicast Address Use in AG2
> 
> 
> Am I to assume, however, that the capability to create 
> statically allocated 
> venues won't disappear from the AG2 code?  Could we at Boeing 
> create a 
> venue server with statically allocated addresses using the AG2 code 
> base?  That it is just the support of such a static and 
> transitional venue 
> server that is going away?
> 
> -randy
> 
> At 09:21 AM 2/11/2003 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > > > 2) We will host a transitional AG2 Venue Server that is 
> > > > initialized with the AG1 venues (same name, 
> description, topology, 
> > > > and media
> > > > streams) so that AG2
> > > > users can collaborate with AG1 users. We will get this
> > > built as soon as
> > > > possible.
> > >
> > > It might be that my question has been answered implicitly 
> in Ivan's 
> > > message, but that I just don't know enough to realize that :)
> > >
> > > So, there is currently a fairly large set of static IP 
> assignments 
> > > courtesy of ANL - current institutions seem to have their 
> own pairs, 
> > > along with the traditional venues. Will these static assignments 
> > > ultimately vanish after the transition, or will this new policy 
> > > apply only to new, future venues?  Or, somewhere in between (e.g. 
> > > retain things like Test Room and AG Lobby as statically 
> assigned IP 
> > > pairs)?
> >
> >Yes, after the transition the current static addresses in 
> the current 
> >venues will vanish. It might be advantageous to keep the venues 
> >themselves for familiarity.
> >
> >The transition will take a long time (in computer time) -- 
> things won't 
> >vanish until at least after SCGlobal. Perhap early 2004, but 
> they will 
> >go away eventually, unless somehow magically we get some operational 
> >support infrastructure (people and money).
> >
> >Sorry that wasn't more clear.
> >
> >--Ivan
> 
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