[49690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Readiness for IPV6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Jul 9 09:51:59 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:49:04 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> Niels Bakker wrote:
>> It would also be nice if operators with end users started offering
>> native multicast. Although the AMS-IX multicast initiative started
>> off with lots of enthusiasm, two years later it seems to have died
>> almost completely.
* pete@he.iki.fi (Petri Helenius) [Tue 09 Jul 2002, 15:27 CEST]:
> Most multicast projects go this way. The reason usually being one or more of;
> A) ISP's want to charge extra for multicast
> B) No content is being served over multicast
> C) Firewalls do not pass multicast (usually non-issue on home users)
Indeed. I'm personally most amazed that B) companies like shoutcast.com
(who must be spending fortunes on bandwidth for all their streams)
aren't pushing multicast more.
Cheers,
-- Niels.
