All things related to multicast

["Taylor, Scott J." <>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Owens 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 09:51
> To: Michael Lambert
> Cc: wg-multicast
> Subject: Re: SAP storm from 145.19.1.183
> 
> Looking at the display in VLC just now, I
> have 44 working streams (though that's being generous, at least 8 of
> them had no a/v content) and 51 non-working. I've long been in the
> habit of warning people who want to test multicast that they have no
> better than a 50/50 chance of picking a working stream at random.
> 
> Bill.

Please forgive the ignorance; isn't this mostly due to the multicast
groups being advertised by SAPs falling into the reserved or
administratively scoped space?  I know that here at CEN we advertise
some SAP's for mpeg2/4 streams that are configured in the 239/8 range
and can't be viewed outside of the CEN network.  I haven't had an
opportunity to verify if these can be seen past our network.  Do you
have any recommendations on best practice or etiquette that is generally
agreed upon in this regard?

-Scott