multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

Tue Jul 9 17:18:35 UTC 2002

>> Even worse, multicast is truly only suitable for live applications; on-demand
>> content can't be realistically mcasted, and users will not settle for "the movie
>> starts every 15 minutes" when they've been used to live VOD with unicast.  The
>> only saving grace may be things like TiVo, where an intelligent agent slurps up
>> live mcasts in hopes that the user may want to watch it "live" later.

Really? What about DF-like technologies?

Dave