All things related to multicast

["Marshall Eubanks" <>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:23:25 -0500
 Dave Devereaux-Weber 
<>
 wrote:
> I have been working with a local ISP and CLEC to encourage them to 
> multicast 
> peer with us.  One strong inducement is television content.  I have told 
> the 
> CLEC that the University of Wisconsin-Madison multicasts some sports 
> programming, and CLEC customers could view that programming if multicast 
> peering 
> were in place.

Is this based on MPEG-2 NTSC, or some other codec ? 
Have you  had discussed the EPG with them ?

Regards
Marshall



> 
> Dave
> 
> Alan Crosswell wrote:
> > Show them the business model in which content providers finally are able 
> > to afford providing content, which leads them to provide more content 
> > rather than the current model of having to provide more copies of the 
> > same content.  This results in more bandwidth overall as the number of 
> > channels expands.
> > 
> > Did I get that right Marshall? ;-)
> > /a
> > 
> > McCallum, Robert wrote:
> > 
> >> Decent list Alan.  I totally agree with the ISP being more multicast
> >> centric.  I shall keep trying to hammer home the benefits to my companys
> >> ISP faction and hopefully one day they actually might just listen :-).
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Alan Crosswell 
> >> [mailto:]
> >>  Sent: 10 October 2005 
> >> 21:54
> >> To: wg-multicast
> >> Subject: This coming year's multicast working group goals
> >>
> >>
> >> Please comment on the following proposed goals for the Internet2
> >> Multicast Working Group.  I would like to hear your opinions of things 
> >> that you
> >> think should be dropped from or added to the list, and whether you 
> >> have any
> >> interest in volunteering your time to help meet the goals.
> >>
> >> Some of this work is done by volunteers.  Some is done by Abilene
> >> engineering staff.  Some is done by Internet2 staff.
> >>
> >> Mission
> >>
> >> See http://multicast.internet2.edu/wg-multicast-charter.shtml for the
> >> current mission statement.  I'm no good at mission statements.  
> >> Someone want to
> >> take a crack at revising this or is it good enough?
> >>
> >> Goals
> >>
> >> 1. Encourage Source-Specific Multicast SSM
> >>     - Why? Because MSDP won't scale and doesn't exist in IPv6.
> >>     - How: Work with commercial I2 members, other vendors, and freeware
> >>       producers to make their products SSM-capable.  This primarly means
> >>       IGMPv3 support in
> >>       a. end systems OSes (XP, Linux done.  MacOS X, other BSDs not
> >> done)
> >>       b. black boxes (e.g. Vbrick)
> >>       c. client software (e.g. Real Player, Windows Media Player,
> >>          StreamPlayerII, etc.)
> >>          (Note that VLC already does SSM)
> >>       d. switches
> >>
> >> 2. Collect and disseminate multicast testing and debugging tools.  Much
> >> of this
> >>     has been done already but the tool list needs to be cleaned up and
> >> extended.
> >>
> >> 3. Continue to deliver training through Hands-on Workshops.
> >>
> >> 4. IPv6 Multicast
> >>     a. Work with v6 working group to bridge v6 and multicast workshop
> >> content.
> >>     b. Encourage use of embedded RP in Abilene and other R&E networks.
> >>     c. Make sure the toolset for v4 also works for v6.
> >>     d. Work with switch vendors to encourage/evaluate MLDv2 support.
> >>
> >> 5. Liaison with related working groups
> >>     a. IETF MAGMA
> >>     b. Internet2 bigvideo, v6, measurement, routing, etc.
> >>     c. Security group(s)
> >>     d. International R&E groups
> >>
> >> 6. Push commodity ISP adoption of multicast routing
> >>     a. Talk to the ISPs and try to convince them of the value.
> >>     b. Work through the Quilt and gigapops to make multicast routing a
> >>        requirement for ISP contracts.  Highlight those ISPs that already
> >>        offer multicast peering.
> >>     c. Talk to home access provider ISPs to try and encourage multicast
> >> support
> >>        so our residential broadband users see the same benefit as our
> >> on-campus
> >>        users.
> >>
> >> 7. Clean up the http://multicast.internet2.edu web site.
> >>
> >> 8. Invent the multicast killer app:-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> /a
> >>
> 
> -- 
> David Devereaux-Weber, P.E.     
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