Confirming source-routed multicast is dead on the public Internet

Wed Aug 1 02:43:10 UTC 2018

other than billing problem, is there any other reasons why multicast would not be viable for public internet ? 

Mankamana 

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>> On Jul 31, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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>> Its tough to prove a negative. I'm extremely confident the answer is yes, public internet multicast is not viable.
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> From a technical perspective, yeah, that’s right, but as you say, tough to prove a negative.  If you want to give them a “why” it doesn’t work, Zhi-Li Zhang and I wrote that up fifteen years ago, when it became evident that it wasn’t going to happen.
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> https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/multicast-billing/multicast-billing-v10.pdf
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>                                -Bill