31 Jul
2018
31 Jul
'18
10:43 p.m.
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@pch.net> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
Its tough to prove a negative. I'm extremely confident the answer is yes, public internet multicast is not viable.
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.
https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/multicast-billing/multicast-billing-v10...
-Bill