[24303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Tue Jun 15 13:38:17 1999
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:25:58 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: danny@qwest.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199906151713.KAA14402@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >Several providers have deployed/are deploying NATIVE multicast today on their
> >"production" IP networks today (many have had intra-domain enabled for years),
>
> Do i miss something or was the problem of letting end-users to inject
> routing information w/o opening backbone to very "interesting" attacks was
> somehow fixed?
>
> >and deploying inter-domain mulicast via existing direct interconnects and the
> >MIXs. Not only is there a b/w savings, there's a huge savings on the source
> >side as well.
>
> Please. Caching is _at least_ as efficient as multicasting (multicasting
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> _is_ caching, with zero retention time) - w/o associated security and
> scalability problems. Presenting L2/L3 multicasting as the best or the only
> or even a meaningful way to reduce transmission duplication is quite wrong.
This is just what I HAVE SAYING.
