Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Ole J. Jacobsen]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Keith Moore wrote:

> > Why aren't we using something like a RealAudio stream?
> 
> please no.  PowerPoint is bad enough.  the last thing we need is 
> another thing to bias IETF away from open systems.
> 

Last I checked, the basic player is free, and implementations exists for
all the major platforms, which would put it on par with PDF/Acrobat reader 
in my book.

Open standards is a fine thing, but you have to have some implementations
and common use before it really matters. And let's not forget what the
goal was: allow people to remotely participate (for some value of
"participate").

Ole