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Re: Multicast Last Mile BOF report

2003-07-16 07:11:05
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:48:06 +0859 ()
Masataka Ohta <mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)hpcl(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> 
wrote:

] > one business model that might be understandable is: you should support
] > multicast if/when it saves you enough bandwidth (over the same content
] > being sent over separate unicast streams) to make it worth your cost.
] 
] It means it saves nothing for receivers that they don't want to
] receive multicast stream.
] 
] Then, senders are not motvated to send multicast stream.

maybe the ISPs supporting multicast could prioritize that traffic, thus 
providing better service on multicast than unicast, thus providing an
incentive for receivers to use multicast over unicast.