I think the main challenge in making this type of media distribution a reality is not the technology, we mostly know how to make it work. The real challenge is the content owners' willingness to make the content available while preserving their IP rights.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Kuhtz Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:46 AM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]

On Feb 7, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

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If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that for large scalability.

Yep. Lots of startups have lots of ideas. If you are selling hammers, you can use the same hammer for lots of projects. But I'm not a true believer in the hammer religion.

Argh. What I'm saying is that this is being worked on. And I know from the research perspective in a previous life that it can be made work. The fact that startups are working on commercializing wasn't supposed to suggest viability (it never does), but that products are on the way to market. I have my confirmation of viability of the concept from a different background altogether and I don't subscribe to startup=viability for anything.