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Thursday, January 11, 1992
To: Marliss Rash
From: Leith (Casey) Leedom
Regarding: Memo of understanding for release of ``MCAST'' software
Marliss,
You asked me to tell you why I want do an unrestricted release of the
MCAST multicast testbed software I developed. There are two fundamental
reasons:
1. My software software is simple enough that it will allow people to
experiment with multicast concepts without getting bogged down in
one of the already existing multicast packages. Those existing
packages are all enormous and complicated -- although far more
sophisticated and more complete than my package.
Because of the large amount of startup effort needed to use
existing packages, there isn't a widespread general interest in
multicast. Thus, I think that distributing my software will
benefit the network research community by exposing more people to
multicast concepts.
2. This is the equivalent of publishing a paper for me. It will
gain me recognition and advance my career.
Yours sincerely,
Leith (Casey) Leedom