[45494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Sun Feb 3 00:08:30 2002
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: "Simon Lyall" <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 03 Feb 2002 00:02:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Stephen Sprunk"'s message of "Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:56:50 -0600"
Message-ID: <87sn8jw42j.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com> writes:
> > Thinking about doing multicast Usenet feeds as a way to cut down the
> > bandwidth in and out of your ISP overlooks the fact that reliable
> > transport for such things doesn't exist.
>
> Ah, but the point of Muse was not to provide reliable news service, but to
> reduce the average propagation time and provide "good enough" delivery which
> could be supplanted by a traditional reliable feed.
I probably shouldn't have used the term "reliable transport" because
I'm talking about propensity for one's network to break (ie, whether
you can count on the transport being available), not reliable data
streams a la TCP. "High maintenance" in the vein of Sally Albright in
"When Harry Met Sally" is probably more appropriate.
---Rob
