On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Patrik Fältström wrote: > [..] >> P.S. And if multicast is in use, or unicast or some othercast, >> that is from my point of view part of the "innovation" the ISPs >> have to do (and will do) to ensure that the production cost is as >> low as possible so that their margin is maximized. > > I actually see a bit of a problem here as multicast would lower the > usage of links, as such, they can't charge as much as with link > that is saturated with unicasted packets. Thus to lower the use in > the internal network one would use multicast, but the client would > then still have to get unicast so that for every listener they are > actually paying... > I am afraid that this is the sort of reasoning that has lead to P2P having such widespread use. Regards Marshall > Greets, > Jeroen > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf