On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Mike Sutton \[ awacs \] wrote:
To my knowledge in the United States host ISP will charge a small premium (say 50%) for specific bandwidth from routers which are enabled to inject multicast - consumers of multicast pay normal rates for their data (This may range from FOC local national international).
In New Zealand we need to get to first base... as a media service provider I need to be able to not be gouged by being required to unicast... I want to deliver a single stream of data to a single or limited number of router(s)... I don't want to alienate or disincentivise Telecom... They need to want to turn this ON... Alternatively, something similar to the Gaming Network could be set up...
I think the only way you'll get it going is by demanding that multicast traffic is a human right for rural dwellers. Do that, and bags of money will be dispatched in your general direction (I'll take my usual 20% cut of course). -- Juha Take off every sig! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog