Real Media and M-Bone feeds

Tue Oct 5 13:12:50 UTC 1999

> Multicast is broken as an idea, period.  Now, why won't we
> just forget about it and spend our life doing something
> useful instead?

because, although it is getting less expensive quickly, transport costs
money.  multicast promises to reduce that cost near sources.

this is a better fantasy than the qos smokers who think it will effectively
get more bits into the pipe.

randy