Hm, hasn't LISTSERV done this for a while... ;-)> ----- CONTROLLING TRAFFIC ON THE NET Cisco Systems, along with Sun Microsystems, Informix Corp., Netcom Online Communication Services and others, is backing technology developed by Tibco Inc. that is designed to ease data gridlock on the Internet. Tibco's technology moves an e-mail message through the Internet pipeline, and then replicates it at the end of the process for multiple distribution, rather than the current broadcasting system that simultaneously sends thousands of messages to thousands of individuals. The consortium plans to submit a proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force next year to adopt Tibco's technology as a nonproprietary standard. "We're trying to solve the mass-market dissemination problem," says Cisco's chief technology officer. "If you replicate things 100,000 times or a million times, the Internet dies. It's as simple as that." (Wall Street Journal 9 Dec 96 B8) -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. Voice: (703) 556-9121 7718 Iroquois Court, Falls Church VA 22043-2516 FAX: (703) 556-0906 Host: AOL Pro's Corner Forum (http://cpcug.org/user/gabe) [log in to unmask] Internet SIG list: SUBSCRIBE NETSIG-L fn ln ---> [log in to unmask]