In addition to multicast, today we should consider other inexpensive streaming solutions available even with IPv6 support. They allow to broadcast the event with lower bandwidths for those that can't get multicast, or don't have the bandwidth to support high bit rates. Regards, Jordi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melinda Shore" <mshore@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Joe Abley" <jabley@xxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:54 AM Subject: Re: MBONE access? > On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 04:18 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > > In the past the answer has been "you don't", often coupled with > > enthusiastic statements about the mbone being in full production, and > > tunnels no longer being necessary. > > I contacted my ISP last week about getting multicast routing configured > and they spent days trying to get it working. They finally called their > equipment vendor, who explained to them that they need someone to route > to them, as well, which was news to them. I'm now getting an mbone feed > through work (I'm a telecommuter so it wasn't automatic). > > You can sometimes get a multicast tunnel terminated by a friendly > university > department, if you've got such thing, but they're not as happy about > letting > you pump a lot of traffic through them as they used to be. > > BTW, the only multicast stream working during last night's plenary > was the MPEG-1 one, and because of the high bit rate it was very lossy. > The other, lower bitrate streams weren't working and the guy running > the service kind of blew me off (and I quote: "watch the video in a > couple weeks after we get back"). If the problem recurs during today's > sessions, please send email to them at multicast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so > they'll see that I'm not a lone crank. > > Melinda > ********************************** Madrid 2003 Global IPv6 Summit Presentations and videos on line at: http://www.ipv6-es.com This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited.