RA/RV Feeds from RBN
Vadim Antonov
avg at pluris.com
Tue Feb 17 22:00:54 UTC 1998
Tony Li wrote:
> Vadim,
>
> I sympathize with all of your cogent comments when applied to multicasting
> in the large. However, multicasting in the small, as practiced by certain
> ISPs seems to violate all of your assumptions and thus violates your
> conclusions. A specific example is UUcast. Comments?
There's always niche applications. It is still silly to build a significant chunkof complexity into the core network just to carry insignificant amount of
traffic.
Tunnels are our friends.
--vadim
PS I do not see how isolated network violates "all assumptions". And i fail
to see why the same functionality (and a lot more) couldn't be implemented
in application-level host-based caches/mcast servers.
There's no particular reason to drag these functions into core gateways.
More information about the NANOG
mailing list