Nick,
What you say here is uncannily very close to the truth! Wait and see what
AOL/TIME/WARNER comes out with in the near future, another idea stolen from
the pram of youth.
Multicast is something I've been around since 1987 and I think there is
something we don't know....... like big brother has always kept hold of the
last bit of the jigsaw so at the end he can say "look I finished it" and
then declare that it was just a bespoke version of Quake XIIVI and was a
test to see how far we got?
Realistically as the consumer connectivity builds then I think so will a
multicast peering model. What's required is an early leader in the
subscription based revenue space to be "got on board" and then just leverage
the rest with money! (by the way this is in the vernacular in case you
thought I was a bread head)
John
Or even better still a multicast peering solution. Media would then no
longer be an issue and some very clever people could write some
protocols for distributing bulk data reliably over a multicast
infrastructure. Or maybe we already did.... ;)
But I've given up the whole multicast thing now as it seems to be making
sod all progress... unless someone knows something I don't?
Nick
Dear John, Nick;