Re: Doc Representing IP Info..

[Glenn Mansfield <[e-mail]>]

Jon,
        Jon says:
	Jon>>it would be most useful if you could add :
	Jon>>
	Jon>>Class D addresses for multicast (which is now in operational use.)_
	Jon>>and possibly very interesting if you could add...
	Jon>>multimedia Conference Name, plus class D address and transport Port used
	Jon>>& conference member/site id
	Jon>>
	Jon>>i have (unfortunately) no idea how this latter is best represented in
	Jon>>the DIT.

	Sylvain says:
	Sylvain>>I might be wrong but if your aim is to represent a particular instance
	Sylvain>>of an ongoing  conference  into the DIT, the information is not stable
	Sylvain>>enough  to  be able to  be  represented  in  the  Directory. I  'm not
        Sylvain>>quite sure that putting in the Directory an  object with a  very short
        Sylvain>>lifetime  (e.g. a couple of hours) is of any use. Did I  undestand you
        Sylvain>>right or do you plan  to put in the Directory the "confrence service"
        Sylvain>>(e.g. a local endpoint to an ever listening process)?


	Jon says:
	Jon>>if a conference is longterm as the ietf one (i.e. 224.2.0.1/3456) then
	Jon>>it is certainly approprtiate to put such info in the directory imho
	Jon>>

The type of services that we are contemplating certainly encompasses the usage you
have recommended. In our next draft we will atempt to present a clear picture of how
this can be done.
I don't see the life time as big problem. One can imagine that an announcement will
be made and used months ahead of the event. The corresponding object in the Directory 
should contain its lifetime after which it is expected to become historical/irrelevant.

As far as representing the network aspect of the multimedia conference
I believe the framework we have proposed will work fine. It requires another image-object
to present another view of the network. Will have to study the requirements before we 
draw up a proposal for the corresponding. Thats somemore homework, I guess it won't be 
done before this IETF ;-) 

Regarding "conference service"  proposed by Sylvain. I think that is a good idea,too.
[Restaurants, ... have already become candidates for the Directory. Conferences are
just as important- one can see the connection between Conferences and Restaurants :-)]
Some form of a (Non-Directory) service is already in place in several places - News, 
Internet Monthly Report, Magazines, ... . However, that will be new application of
the Directory services. We can foresee its interaction with the network information
represented in the Directory in the above form.  


Cheers

Glenn

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