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Re: And we thought the text part of the Starr Report would be bad

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Fri Sep 18 13:37:05 1998

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:21:00 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@oal.net>
Reply-To: rirving@oal.net
To: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu

> While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to 
> stream the video in its entirety would
> go fine, Martin Hall of the 
> IP Multicast Initiative says the real problems would occur at the
> user's end of the line.

and also

> 
> Such major news events could drive home one point: 
> that Internet needs better ways to deal with
> surges of users.


Ironic that they interviewed Martin. IPMI  *is* the solution for 
just this type of event.  Somehow, that never made it into the article.

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