absense of multicast deployment

Fri Mar 3 20:42:25 UTC 2006

On 3-Mar-2006, at 11:48, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> That depends on your perspective.  There's a compelling need for  
> usable multicast in many environments, and so far there's nobody  
> (in the US) with a compelling need for IPv6, much less shim6.

If there's such a compelling need for native multicast, why has it  
seen such limited deployment, and why is it available to such a tiny  
proportion of the Internet?

Joe