Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

[Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>]

> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com () nanog org  Fri Apr 29 12:24:21 2011
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:23 -0300
> Subject: Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
> From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>
> To: Nanog <nanog () nanog org>
>
> > > Isn't the real problem with global multicast: "How do we ultimately
> > > bill the broadcaster for all that traffic amplification that happened
> > > *inside* every other AS?" It seems like you'd have to do per-packet
> > > accounting at every router, and coordinate billing/reporting amongst
> > > all providers that saw those packets.
>
> Broadcast encrypted streams. Unicast the key distribution, allowing
> interested parties to count, bill, block, allow, litigate, agree...
>
>
> Rubens