All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Michael Luby wrote:

> I'm always very confused by these discussions, probably because of my bias
> in terms of viewing multicast as just an underlying network efficiency
> enhancement instead of some kind of service that an end user should ever be
> aware of.  However, given my bias, I am really perplexed why it is

EXACTLY!! Laymen users DON'T care and never should care. I believe the
trouble today is that the majority user-base for Internet multicast are
the very geeks who are trying to work it all out, and therefore see trees
and not the forest. ;-)

Greg