All things related to multicast

["Marshall Eubanks" <>]

Boy, you get busy for a day or so and all sorts of stuff happens.


On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
 Greg Shepherd 
<>
 wrote:
> 
> http://www.onthei.com
> 

Thanks - but better stuff is available from

http://www.americafree.tv 

I feel like saying I use multicast all the time - what's the problem ?
(Well, inter-domain ASM will die soon if nothing is done, but
when you are free from or isolated from SA storms, it
actually works surprisingly well.)

I think that multicast is being used more, and will become part of the 
"hidden" infrastructure of the Internet but I think that the community (the
people reading this email) do not have the power to push through general 
multicast.
That will happen, if it ever does, by pull (demand), not push.

For a different view on this, see
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=93874

However, another way to approach the problem is to concentrate on new
areas - and I think that wireless Internet access (which I bet is what most
of us actually us much of the time to access the Internet) holds promise for 
driving
through cheap Internet broadcast, probably through some combination 
of native and application layer multicast.

Regards 
Marshall Eubanks

> Greg
> 
> > application isn't the DJ stuff though. Its building a 'radio' application 
> > that
> > doesn't suck and is appealing to the kids (especially the collegiate 
> > linux kids)
> > (and before anyone says "Vic and Vat already exist" - they aren't good 
> > enough -
> > protocol maybe, interface no way). If the kids adopt this in college and 
> > start
> > to really want it the pressure they exert on the market as they enter the 
> > real
> > world will push more ISPs to offer multicast.
> >
> > At that point things like conference calls, video streaming, and new
> > applications will start to be adopted by the wider market and we'll see 
> > some
> > real progress.
> >
> > Just my thoughts on it.
> >
> >
>