[49709] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Meyer)
Tue Jul 9 13:21:21 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:18:35 -0700
From: David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: David Sinn <dsinn@microsoft.com>,
Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <021c01c2276a$41ca0350$9b876540@amer.cisco.com>; from ssprunk@cisco.com on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Even worse, multicast is truly only suitable for live applications; on-demand
>> content can't be realistically mcasted, and users will not settle for "the movie
>> starts every 15 minutes" when they've been used to live VOD with unicast. The
>> only saving grace may be things like TiVo, where an intelligent agent slurps up
>> live mcasts in hopes that the user may want to watch it "live" later.
Really? What about DF-like technologies?
Dave
