--As of May 4, 2011 5:43:04 PM -0400, Jay Ashworth is alleged to have said:
You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final analysis *to limit THEIR transit costs*, multicast would seem to be a really good means toward that end, unless my final analysis is contradicted by something better justified and documented...
This would turn multicast into a Consumer-pull technology.
--As for the rest, it is mine. Assuming that is the actual reason for traffic caps, instead of just the stated reason. In many cases it seems like traffic caps are being rolled out in an effort to stymie the streaming-content services (Hulu, Youtube, etc.) that compete with the ISP's other business of selling TV/Cable service. If that is the case, multicast is just a way for the services the ISPs are trying to interfere with to lower their costs and increase their quality. So not including that traffic in their cap is the last thing they would want to do. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------