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I'm just stating a fact :/ It's a simple message passing service. It's pretty much as complex as a router that supports multicast UDP. eg not very.
by axod 17y ago
I'm just stating a fact :/
It's a simple message passing service. It's pretty much as complex as a router that supports multicast UDP. eg not very.
- tptacek 17y agoMulticast UDP is so easy that it has never successfully been deployed at Internet scale.
- axod 17y agoBuilding a router that supports multicast UDP is simple. Getting THE INTERNET to all simultaneously upgrade is the hard bit.
- tptacek 17y agoMaintaining group-based routing tables for individual pieces of content as opposed to hosts that serve many pieces of content is a hard problem, and no vendor has solved it.