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

[Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>]

> > 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