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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: absense of multicast deployment
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 -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [email protected] -*- [email protected] -*- [email protected] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.
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