------------------ During the first second months, we have done the following: SUPPORTING INTERNET MULTICAST MULTIMEDIA Jon Crowcroft and Peter Kirstein Department of Computer Science University College London 1. Routing OCBT v. CBT OCBT is work at UCSC which takes ideas from HPIM, and applies them to CBT, removing looping problems, and possibly improiveing scaling and core placement. YAMM - this is work by Ken Carlberg from SAIC, PhD student at UCL 2. Reliable Multicast B-MART is a bulk transfer multicast protocol, being proposed for pre-loading web mirror sites, and VRML world databases. 3. Session and Invitation Protocols, Multimedia Conferencing Security for SDP/SIP, Rat Windows ports of Rat, Nte, Vic 4. Overall Architecture proposed NRTP, NRTCP system for buiding generic reliable multicvast, and thence specific protocols via templates. 5. Standards: Now mark handley is at ISI, we no longer run MMUSIC. We co-chair IDMR, and new LSMA WGs