From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:32:38 +0300 Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Remember that multicast never happened either. How much it would take to "sponsor" free content over multicast to get it deployed. DonŽt know if this would be approvable for government subsidies though.
But multicast HAS happened, but mostly in the enterprise. Interdomain multicast is still unusual outside the R&E community. R&E nets like Abilene, vBNS, and ESnet make heavy use of interdomain multicast, especially for the Access Grid (http://www.accessgrid.org). While the Access Grid tends to be mostly R&E, there are a number of commercial providers supporting it and interdomain multicast. I do not believe that the Access Grid has yet been used for pr0n, but is is largely government subsidized. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634