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IPv6 includes the convention of allocating a global multicast subnet range which mirrors a global unicast range. This problem is already solved, people just nee
by suprjami 12y ago
IPv6 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.