Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > The problem with multicast in this application is that it only works if > all the clients are accepting the same data stream and viewing it live. > > That's not how people tend to view Web video, there might be 50% of the > crowd watching it as Oprah speaks but the rest are likely to be time > shifted from a few secs to hours or even days.
You clearly don't understand the point of this event. There were 500k+ wanting to simultaneously watch it live. The other 250k+ that signed up would be watching a time shifted replay. Due to the problems, significantly more people ended up doing the time shifted version than had intended to. Tony _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
