Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Wed Mar 14 18:45:19 UTC 2012

On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:18 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:13:41 PDT, Owen DeLong said:
>> I expect within my lifetime that multi-gigabit ethernet will become
>> commonplace in the household LAN environment and that when that
>> becomes reality, localized IP Multicast over multi-gigabit ethernet
>> will eventually supplant HDMI as the primary transport for audio/video
>> streams between devices (sources such as BD players, DVRs,
>> computers, etc. and destinations such as receivers/amps, monitors,
>> speaker drivers, etc.).
> 
> The only reason you got HDMI at all was because the content owners managed
> to get HDCP included.  You won't get a replacement that doesn't do HDCP until
> we fix the sorry state of copyright in the US.
> 
> So it's equivalent to asking if we're going to fix copyright within your lifetime... :)

I fully expect them to develop an HDCP-or-equivalent enabled protocol to run over IP Multicast.

Do you have any reason you believe that won't happen?

Owen