[15405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RA/RV Feeds from RBN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Feb 17 17:03:34 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:00:54 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Tony Li wrote:
> Vadim,
>
> I sympathize with all of your cogent comments when applied to multicasting
> in the large. However, multicasting in the small, as practiced by certain
> ISPs seems to violate all of your assumptions and thus violates your
> conclusions. A specific example is UUcast. Comments?
There's always niche applications. It is still silly to build a significant chunkof complexity into the core network just to carry insignificant amount of
traffic.
Tunnels are our friends.
--vadim
PS I do not see how isolated network violates "all assumptions". And i fail
to see why the same functionality (and a lot more) couldn't be implemented
in application-level host-based caches/mcast servers.
There's no particular reason to drag these functions into core gateways.
