All things related to multicast

[Ray Soucy <>]

> Transit ISPs have at least a short-term financial advantage from deploying
> AMT relays -- if multicast would get used by their customer ISPs' end users.
> The situation persists until the customer ISPs have deployed their own
> relays and/or multicast capability to the customer :P
>
> Pekka
>

Or just... Not provide access to multicast by blocking that anycast
address.  I would look at the level of adoption for any of the various
IPv6 automatic tunnel transition technologies and see how well that is
working out. ;-)

What I'm saying is that it's a chicken and egg problem.  Nobody will
want to host a public AMT relay unless there are already a bunch of
them available.  I don't think it will encourage multicast adoption.
The real way to get multicast adoption is to provide content that
people want access to.  It would be nice to see major television
networks that already broadcast over the air allow I2 to multicast
them and provide them with a larger audience for ad revenue and little
or no cost to them.

NBC, CBS, ABC, etc come to mind.  Not sure why we don't have good
C-SPAN feeds up either, and maybe every PBS station.  I think if the
case could be made to one big content producer, it would be easy to
get the rest.

-- 
Ray Soucy

Epic Communications Specialist

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