On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:34:11PM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Months ago there was discussion about peer-to-peer streaming. I > know Michael Halcrow and others were participating in this > discussion.
After having spent some time reading research papers in a graduate-level networking protocols class, I am absolutely convinced that multicast routing is the best answer to the problem that P2P streaming is attempting to solve. We would do better to focus on overlay networks that implement such features than on these myriad random one-off projects that really constitute a technologically inferior solution (a "hack" or a "kludge"). For some examples of what you can do with multicast technology, read these: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm98/tp/paper05.pdf http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/Vita/IEEE/WongLam99.pdf http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/Vita/ACM/WGL98.pdf That last paper has been superseded by another scheme that operates more on an subtree-exclusionary basis; I'll have to see if I can't dig up the paper for that. And if you're wondering just how it can be feasible to deploy such sweeping changes on non-overlay networks: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/paper-RatShe.pdf Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 The observation of change is not empirical evidence for a time dimension. It is evidence for change.
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