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From: cheriton@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU (David Cheriton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Interactive game playing over an internet network
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Date: 5 Feb 89 17:52:22 GMT
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VMTP (RFC 1045) is intended support the type of communication required for
distributed games (as well as other uses).  We are in the middle of
modifying mazewars to use VMTP and IP multicast, and will announce it
when available.  We are not planning to solve all the directory issues
raised by needing to register games, locate a particular game, etc.
I think a network directory service that could record this information
is the major missing piece. X.500?
David Cheriton