[49856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Thu Jul 11 04:04:19 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:00:56 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020709101638.A14681@sprint.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:16:38 -0700 David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
wrote:
> Given the amount of time and resource we've spent on multicast,
> the question one might ask is "why hasn't multicast succeeded"?
> My guess is that it is because the demand from any of the
> potential users of the service just isn't there (not at internet
...and perhaps also because there is "enough" bandwidth currently, and that
adding bandwidth is easier/cheaper/more stable/more well known than
enabling multicast?
Just a guess.
- kurtis -
