[89164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: absense of multicast deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Fri Mar 3 20:19:49 2006
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 01:18:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
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JA> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:42:25 -0500
JA> From: Joe Abley
JA> If there's such a compelling need for native multicast, why has it
JA> seen such limited deployment, and why is it available to such a tiny
JA> proportion of the Internet?
One could ask the same of long-prefix PI availability and announcement.
Lack of demand is not the only answer; one must also examine technical
and policy constraints.
Taking your statement a step further, though, you have a very good
point: A smart approach is to analyze end-user wishes and demands,
transform the "wish list" into engineering requirements, and take it
from there. (e.g., just what is the global table asymptotic limit?)
Eddy
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