[3666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: audio/video again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Aug 6 08:03:54 1996
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:01:02 -0400
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 08:15 PM 8/5/96 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
>How would you feel if Pointcast slowly backed off and increased the time
>period between updates, but at the touch of a key or movement of the mouse
>it would go back to the "knob" setting? Obviously a low volume data feed
>like Pointcast may not be that big a load on the net but the heuristics
>(which do involve human factors) could probably be applied to a lot of
>other things like video feeds that will be bigger bandwidth consumers.
>
I think this sounds fine, but I don't think you need an RFC to dictate
it. This would be a competitive advantage for an application, methinks.
- paul
