[167070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DOCSIS 3.0 and Multicast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Fri Nov 29 13:48:10 2013
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:47:55 -0800
From: Phil Karn <karn@philkarn.net>
To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com>
In-Reply-To: <001501ceed2d$6103bff0$230b3fd0$@iname.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/29/2013 10:03 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> It looks like Cisco is doing something in the IP Video over DOCSIS area, and
> so if you're serious about this, you could reach out to them.
It's not video over IP multicast that interests me so much as the
opportunity to thwart NSA-style bulk traffic analysis by multicasting
unicast messages with encrypted destination addresses so an eavesdropper
can't tell who it's for.