On 21 Mar 2002 at 15:49 -0500, Chris Metz allegedly wrote:
> Hi-
> I thought the "no land wars in Asia" comment last night with respect to
> multicast was hilarious. Some comments though:
>
> 1. It might be shortsighted to take such a narrow view on multicast at the
> moment. Given the ubiquity of IP now and move that forward by X number of
> years along with the resource efficiencies for broadcast-style (and other
> applications) that multicast offers, it seems that Internet multicast
> routing should be a priority.
We won't know how to do multicast routing until we know how to do
unicast. Once unicast starts to congeal, I suggest taking a careful
look at what it's turning into, to see how much consideration multicast
needs to be given then versus after.
...Scott
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