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Re: And we thought the text part of the Starr Report would be bad

  • From: Richard Irving
  • Date: Fri Sep 18 13:43:07 1998

> While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to 
> stream the video in its entirety would
> go fine, Martin Hall of the 
> IP Multicast Initiative says the real problems would occur at the
> user's end of the line.

and also

> 
> Such major news events could drive home one point: 
> that Internet needs better ways to deal with
> surges of users.


Ironic that they interviewed Martin. IPMI  *is* the solution for 
just this type of event.  Somehow, that never made it into the article.