"John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com> writes: > >This email describes a discussion list which will develop a framework > >for efficient transport of IPv4 and IPv6 Datagrams over ISO MPEG-2 > >Transport Streams (TS). > > Wouldn't it make more sense to transmit MPEG over IP? Then you get the > benefit of running everywhere IP does, instead of having to come up with > your own standards for the data layer. The way that IP has been "winning" is to find ways of carrying it *everywhere*. There are already many links around the world set up that carry MPEG-2 TS (in fact, I would not be terribly surprised if the number of bps worldwide of MPEG-2 TS exceeds that of voice, and possibly even of "IP over 'normal' WAN transport". If we can leverage those existing links, and get IP into them, eventually the IP will become a "must have" feature, and then eventually the link configuration will be re-engineered and "inverted", with IP taking it's rightful place at the "true" layer 3. -- Mark Atwood | Well done is better than well said. mra@pobox.com | http://www.pobox.com/~mra