Re: Sunday traffic curiosity

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> It failed to scale for some of the exact same reasons QoS failed to
> scale - what works inside one administrative domain doesn't work once
> it crosses domain boundaries.
>
> Plus, there's a lot more state to keep - if you think spanning tree
> gets ugly if the tree gets too big, think about what happens when the
> multicast covers 3,000 people in 117 ASN's, with people from multiple
> ASN's joining and leaving every few seconds.

add to that it is the TV model in a VOD world.  works for sports, maybe,
not for netflix

randy