All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:57:14PM -0800, Leonard Giuliano wrote:
> 
> Dan, Bill, et al- interdomain multicast ain't dead yet!
> 
> The previous efforts from 12-14 years ago to get everyone in the world to 
> enable mcast natively have beyond a doubt failed miserably.  Multicast has 
> a number of problems, and I'm sure the folks on these mailing lists can 
> each come up with plenty of their own favorites.  But the biggest problem 
> has always been that multicast is an all-or-nothing solution, and getting 
> every layer 3 hop, every router and firewall on the Internet to just turn 
> on a few new protocols was simply something that wasn't going to happen.  
> However AMT solves that problem.  With AMT, multicast works gloriously in 
> natively-enabled pockets of the Internet, but also can be received in the 
> other 98% of the Internet that doesn't support multicast.

Okay - so the use case is native intradomain multicast, with interdomain 
provided by AMT? Works for me - I get to drop native interdomain multicast 
support from my network, and the user doesn't know either way (so no 
complaints ;)

Bill.