[140048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Apr 29 15:39:55 2011
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:37:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0C9E301D@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
> > Internet engineers are prone to try to solve this problem in favor of
> > the viewer, and their networks -- with their networks winning in case
> > of a push.
>
> Should be easy enough on your subscriber ports to use igmp to see who
> has subscribed to which groups, shouldn't it? Just log igmp changes
> and there's your accounting.
You've conflated my two points. That would tell the *carriers* who's watching
what, but they probably don't care. I was talking about *the providers*
knowing (think DRM and "3096 viewers online").
Cheers,
-- jra
