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Mbone – Multicast over the Internet
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI used VRVS a fair bit ca 1998-2000-ish. It was always way better than any of the other videoconferencing er things that were available... when you could get it to work... and when everyone else could also get it to work.
- suprjami 12y agoIPv6 includes the convention of allocating a global multicast subnet range which mirrors a global unicast range. This problem is already solved, people just need to use IPv6. The more I learn about IPv6, the more I love it and realise it could help us all in so many ways. We, as the tech industry, should start pushing the world to IPv6. How many killer services (eg: Twitter, Facebook) would need to be 6-only before businesses and consumers are demanding it and ISPs are supplying dual stack.
- unsignedint 12y agoI don't know if it'll be viable, though. A lot of services seems to be pushed toward encrypting traffic; wouldn't usefulness of multicast be diminished if those transmissions require unique keys for each user, even IPv6 is available for that?
- nextweek2 12y agoNo thats already a solved problem. Satellite and cable providers have been offering conditional access for decades. You can encrypt a small part of the data, making a video stream unusable without the encrypted part. You also don't want to do full realtime decryption and video playback, thats a lot of processing power.