All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton" <>]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, John Zwiebel wrote:

> On May 22, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
> > > We need to have a standard directory that lists multicast sources.
> >
> > No we don't.  Do we need "a standard directory that lists JPEG images"? 
> > Do we need "a standard directory that lists MPEG movies"?  Of course not.
>
> For a "real" channel, where that channel is always up and running and
> never moves, you are totally right.

I do agree with Hitoshi as well.  We do.  Not because such a thing might 
seem silly to us, but simply because it would be useful to have when an 
ISP interested in doing multicast asks, "what's out there?"

Telling them to turn on multicast, then spark up SDR only to find out they 
and their customers need IP/TV clients turns into a wasted effort in the 
end.

> However, folks claim multicast will be useful for other applications
> than internet TV.  (I'd like to think so, but other than Access Grid,
> it isn't clear to me that there's anything else out there.)

I have seen some efforts into using multicast as an NNTP transport.  But 
I have not seen anyone report as to whether it was any more efficient than 
just point-to-point peering.  It would be nice to setup such a network 
once again just to see how far it can be pushed.

Anyone game?

wfms