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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gian Constantine <[email protected]> wrote: >The available address space for multicast in IPv4 is limited. IPv6 vastly >expands this space. And here, I may have been guilty of putting the cart >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 for >inter-AS multicast. If demand for variety in service provider selection >grows with the proliferation of IPTV, we may see the required motivation >for inter-AS multicast, which places us in a position moving to the large >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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFo+oXq1pz9mNUZTMRAuSaAJ47tTGFI+kTaZwOO2D6CHOWmIn6eACgyZzd xy6wZ7sFYsU3jeU2a3XIBq4= =aRhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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