"John Stracke" <jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com> writes:
This email describes a discussion list which will develop a framework
for efficient transport of IPv4 and IPv6 Datagrams over ISO MPEG-2
Transport Streams (TS).
Wouldn't it make more sense to transmit MPEG over IP? Then you get the
benefit of running everywhere IP does, instead of having to come up with
your own standards for the data layer.
The way that IP has been "winning" is to find ways of carrying it
*everywhere*. There are already many links around the world set up
that carry MPEG-2 TS (in fact, I would not be terribly surprised if
the number of bps worldwide of MPEG-2 TS exceeds that of voice, and
possibly even of "IP over 'normal' WAN transport".
If we can leverage those existing links, and get IP into them,
eventually the IP will become a "must have" feature, and then
eventually the link configuration will be re-engineered and
"inverted", with IP taking it's rightful place at the "true" layer 3.
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