North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)
Thus spake "David Meyer" <[email protected]> > Here's my $0.02 on the whole multicast thing. We've been at this > for a number of years now, and robust, ubiquitous multicast > on the internet is really nowhere in sight. Kind of sounds like > QoS, and maybe there's a lesson there (20 years of research and > IETF activity, yielding, well, what?). OTOH, multicast and QOS are both widely deployed inside most large corporate networks and are rapidly approaching ubiquity. They both effectively solve business problems and therefore there's a big motivation for them, and the IETF's efforts have been extremely fruitful. Don't let the IETF's (or NANOG's) ISP-centric membership blind you to that. S
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