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RE: MBONE access?

2004-03-03 16:30:28
I'm all for eating our own dog food, but IMO workable remote 
access is more
important.

The point about eating the dog food is so that you improve it
to the point where it is acceptable.

I think it is time to accept that the MBONE technology is
fatally flawed and is not going to be deployable.

Equally flawed and useless are the H.323 protocols that do not
tunnel through NAT or even work with a firewall in a remotely 
acceptable fashion.

This thing is not rocket science. There are lots of folk
with the little cameras and the ISPs do not want to have
their bandwidth wasted needlessly. But trying to do multicast
in the network layer has failed. The Internet considers 
complexity in the network to be stupidity and does not route
it.

                Phill




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