[140051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Fri Apr 29 15:51:10 2011
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:50:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikuNUG9YvFERr3n51Kz4hmuKL8aRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Apr 29 12:24:21 2011
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:23 -0300
> Subject: Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
> From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
> To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
>
> >> 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
>
