Readiness for IPV6

Tue Jul 9 13:49:04 UTC 2002

> Niels Bakker wrote:
>> It would also be nice if operators with end users started offering
>> native multicast.  Although the AMS-IX multicast initiative started
>> off with lots of enthusiasm, two years later it seems to have died
>> almost completely.

* pete at he.iki.fi (Petri Helenius) [Tue 09 Jul 2002, 15:27 CEST]:
> Most multicast projects go this way. The reason usually being one or more of;
> A) ISP's want to charge extra for multicast
> B) No content is being served over multicast
> C) Firewalls do not pass multicast (usually non-issue on home users)

Indeed.  I'm personally most amazed that B) companies like shoutcast.com
(who must be spending fortunes on bandwidth for all their streams)
aren't pushing multicast more.

Cheers,

	-- Niels.