[89153] in North American Network Operators' Group
absense of multicast deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Mar 3 15:42:54 2006
In-Reply-To: <058701c63ee2$41996220$720016ac@ssprunk>
Cc: "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>,
"Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:42:25 -0500
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3-Mar-2006, at 11:48, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> That depends on your perspective. There's a compelling need for
> usable multicast in many environments, and so far there's nobody
> (in the US) with a compelling need for IPv6, much less shim6.
If there's such a compelling need for native multicast, why has it
seen such limited deployment, and why is it available to such a tiny
proportion of the Internet?
Joe
