----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Bonser" <[email protected]>
> > Internet engineers are prone to try to solve this problem in favor of > > the viewer, and their networks -- with their networks winning in case > > of a push. > > Should be easy enough on your subscriber ports to use igmp to see who > has subscribed to which groups, shouldn't it? Just log igmp changes > and there's your accounting. You've conflated my two points. That would tell the *carriers* who's watching what, but they probably don't care. I was talking about *the providers* knowing (think DRM and "3096 viewers online"). Cheers, -- jra

