[94098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Tue Jan 9 14:37:12 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:17:00 GMT
To: constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net> wrote:
>The available address space for multicast in IPv4 is limited. IPv6 vast=
ly
>expands this space. And here, I may have been guilty of putting the car=
t
>before the horse. Inter-AS multicast does not exist today because the
>motivators are not there. It is absolutely possible, but providers have=
to
>want to do it. Consumers need to see some benefit from it. Again, the
>benefit needs to be seen by a large market. Providers make decisions in=
>the interest of their bottom line. A niche service is not a motivator f=
or
>inter-AS multicast. If demand for variety in service provider selection=
>grows with the proliferation of IPTV, we may see the required motivatio=
n
>for inter-AS multicast, which places us in a position moving to the lar=
ge
>multicast space available in IPv6. =
>
I don't think I'd be hanging my hat on IPv6 operational frobs at
this moment in time.
But that's just me. :-)
$.02,
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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