Streaming dead again.

Tue Feb 11 18:19:24 UTC 2003

At 11:51 AM 2/11/2003, Eric Germann wrote:
>Dying at merit.demarc.cogentco.com with 3561ms figures in traceroute.
>
>How many would pay some $$$ for this to be moved in the future to a premium
>service provided by someone like RealMedia.  Methinks the merit servers are
>getting crushed.

Raises hand as someone who'd be willing to pay a virtual attendance fee.

>I'd pony up some $$$ to virtually attend it if it were reliable.  Seems a
>lot less reliable this time around.

I've tried several times to suggest a virtual attendance fee for IETF 
meetings as well. There seems to be significant resistance to the concept 
in that group, perhaps NANOG will be more receptive?

For the fee, I'd expect some sort of a back-channel as well (IRC channel, 
email address or something so that folks who're attending virtually can ask 
questions of the presenter).