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Re: IPV6 Multicast


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  • From: Tim Chown <>
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  • Subject: Re: IPV6 Multicast
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:06:13 +0100

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:45:52PM +0100, John Lyons wrote:
>
> Like it or not, lack of stable code, security concerns, lack of a
> scaleable
> address allocation system, requirement for lot's of state, difficult
> debugging,
> and lack of a scaleable inter-domain infrastructure have all played a
> significant part in the stunt in growth of multicast deployment.

So in IPv6 there is a scaleable address allocation system, and you can
avoid the inter-domain infrastructure - is there genuine hope to change
the current deployment bottleneck (outside of the academic networks)?

Or is the 'magic foo' requirement pushing the realistic deployment
scenario in DSL networks even further?

--
Tim/::1



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