[94090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jan 9 13:24:28 2007
In-Reply-To: <16A7A6FA-90F1-4D83-BAFC-BDCD9C7684F8@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:09:18 -0500
To: Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9-Jan-2007, at 13:04, Gian Constantine wrote:
> You are correct. Today, IP multicast is limited to a few small
> closed networks. If we ever migrate to IPv6, this would instantly
> change. One of my previous assertions was the possibility of
> streaming video as the major motivator of IPv6 migration. Without
> it, video streaming to a large market, outside of multicasting in a
> closed network, is not scalable, and therefore, not feasible.
> Unicast streaming is a short-term bandwidth-hogging solution
> without a future at high take rates.
So you are of the opinion that inter-domain multicast doesn't exist
today for technical reasons, and those technical reasons are fixed in
IPv6?
Joe
