Collabarative document sharing via the MBONE
webcast enables a group of Mosaic instances to traverse and
share a set of WWW documents via the mbone. It is an extension of
cciShare
and X
Web Teach, and uses CCI and RMP to this end.
Status of webcast
- 6-31 January - work on cciShare as prototype for xwt
- 1-28 February - work on implementing cciShare function
(multicasting URLs) using RMP.
- 1-20 March - expand CCI to include some things useful for this
application:
- Have Mosaic send URLs to xwt before it pulls the
document over the web. Necessary to acheive quick URL multicast
responsiveness.
- Implement non blocking CCIGet. Necessary in order to keep
xwt from leaving RMP group due to timeouts.
- Make it so that if CCI sendAnchor is enabled, and the
application does a get, the anchor is not sent in this case.
- 20-31 March - implement multicast of whole documents,
including inlined objects.
- 25 March - Alpha release. By this date, xwt multicasts
urls, or documents with inlined images.
- 1 April - Beta release.
- 2-4 April - testing for use at conference in Darmstadt.
- 8 April - 1.0 release Changed name to webcast from xwt.
- 7-9 April - more testing.
- 10-14 April - webcast in use at conference in Darmstadt.
- 16 May - 1.1a4 release.
- 29 May 1995 - Mbone verification test #1
- 31 May 1995 - Mbone verification test #2
- 4 June 1995 - 1.1a5 release.
- 5 June 1995 - Mbone verification test #3
webcast Materials
webcast Feedback
There is a hypernews
page for discussion of webcast (and cciShare).