----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <yo...@jsyoung.net>
> I think it's elegant, in think Deering did an incredible job to > create it and some many years ago I played a role to bring > multicast to the Internet at large. I believed that multicast > would play a huge role in the delivery of content, then. > > Trouble was that the way that people want to consume > video means most of it is time-shifted. Folks in charge of > networks didn't understand the technology and marketing > people thought turning on multicast meant giving something > away. I finally settled on the notion that multicast is a tool > for service providers/enterprises to use but that it wouldn't > ever be as pervasive as I'd hoped. I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that situation already when it arrives. Cheers, -- jra