[140035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Fri Apr 29 13:24:12 2011
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:23 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> Isn't the real problem with global multicast: "How do we ultimately
>> bill the broadcaster for all that traffic amplification that happened
>> *inside* every other AS?" It seems like you'd have to do per-packet
>> accounting at every router, and coordinate billing/reporting amongst
>> all providers that saw those packets.
Broadcast encrypted streams. Unicast the key distribution, allowing
interested parties to count, bill, block, allow, litigate, agree...
Rubens
