Marc Manthey wrote: > I would like to ask any experts if you think that multicast is a real > peer 2 peer competitor > and could decrease streaming traffic in the near ipv6 future. > > Native IP multicast can replace peer-to-peer overlay networks used for application-level multicast. It can't replace many other peer-to-peer things, however.
Note that Flash Player 10.1 with RTMFP Groups includes the ability to build a peer-to-peer overlay network and multicast (application-level) over it *and* the ability to receive a native IP multicast *and* the ability to "fuse" the two together, so that peers with native IP reception capability can get it over the native IP network (and possibly forward it to peers who cannot), and peers who cannot will get it over the p2p overlay. But IPv6 deployment really isn't going to change anything... source-specific multicast (which exists for both IPv4 and IPv6) is more likely to help allow the deployment, but it'll still be a long time before it is widespread. Most operating systems aren't doing SSM / IGMPv3 anyway, so couldn't use it if the network was ready. Matthew Kaufman _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
