On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:03:02PM -0800, Tony Li wrote:
> IMHO, we have a chicken and the egg issue. The ISPs would deploy the
> infrastructure if there was demand. The demand would be there if there was
> content. The content would be there if there was already deployment. And
> so it goes...
>
> The only way that I can see out of this cycle is a killer app for mcast. I
> can only think of one, and it's not exactly politically correct.
If there was a killer app for mcast I'm sure ISPs would figure out how to bill
for it but it seems that the charges are a "we really don't want to offer this
so go away" fee currently.
Efforts to make mcast easier to run within an AS and development of a
standards-based "reflector box" that can connect inter-AS mcast would probably
make it more attractive to run for many ISPs (generalize Skycache/Cidera,
Akamai etc. etc.)
Adi
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