[89156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: absense of multicast deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Mar 3 16:06:12 2006
In-Reply-To: <C3EAB9D0-188D-453F-8AA9-57A18FED6973@isc.org>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>, "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:02:00 -0500
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello;
By everything I can tell, it's roughly about 10% for global
deployment, see
http://www.multicasttech.com/status
and is becoming basically BCP in the enterprise IPTV environment
(which are currently all
"walled gardens"). (Note that this deployment is effectively entirely
ASM / IGMP v2.)
By any measure, multicast deployment is much larger than IPv6
deployment at present, and it is growing.
I will be glad to argue the point to any length you might desire.
Of course, the deployment did not exactly take the form that was
anticipated in 2000...
Regards
Marshall
On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> 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
>