All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

Conferencing has been repeatedly miss-identified as an "ideal" multicast
application. It is not. And acutally, much of the baggage we have today
with ASM came from that miss-targeted application.

Greg

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Bill Owens wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:24:36PM -0400, Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:
> > My two cents:
> >
> > Multicast is not used more often because:
> >
> > 1. The default condition of virtually all routers is to disable multicast.
> . . .
>
> All true, and I certainly know that multicast is not an easy thing to 
> configure, manage and repair (or even understand!) but I'm intentionally 
> preaching the choir here. I wasn't asking why Joe Public doesn't use 
> multicast more often, I was asking why *we* don't use it more often.
>
> My application, weekly recurring conference calls with a standing group of 
> people, all at Internet2 sites, all of them advanced network users, seems 
> like an ideal place to use multicast a/v tools - and yet, we don't. There 
> must be dozens of similar conference calls every week; heck, Internet2 has 
> their own conference system, and they wouldn't have bothered if they didn't 
> use it a lot. Isn't there something wrong with that picture?
>
> Bill.
>
>