Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 30/04/2011, at 5:44 AM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Delivering multicast to end users is fundamentally not hard. The biggest issue seems to be with residential CPE (pretty much the same problem as IPv6, really). Well, more than that, since I don't really want my DSL pipe saturated

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 29, 2011 03:37:04 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: 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). And then if there's music, the

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 29, 2011 05:16:51 PM George Bonser wrote: But if broadcast events over the internet are treated the same as broadcast events over RF, who cares? They're not; that's the problem. For the US, at least, the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress has statutory authority in

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Chris Adams wrote: I can also see how this affects the ISPs providing bandwidth to the content providers. In our colo for example, we rate-limit customers to the paid-for bandwidth at the colo port. With multicast however, they could use significantly more bandwidth,

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-30 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:34:15 -0700, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Octavio Alvarez alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org said: So the first user in a router tunes to a multicast stream. Consumption for the ISP and all the routers in the chain to the source: same as if it were a

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Rubens Kuhl
Isn't the real problem with global multicast: How do we ultimately bill the broadcaster for all that traffic amplification that happened *inside* every other AS? It seems like you'd have to do per-packet accounting at every router, and coordinate billing/reporting amongst all providers that

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com Isn't the real problem with global multicast: How do we ultimately bill the broadcaster for all that traffic amplification that happened *inside* every other AS? It seems like you'd have to do per-packet accounting at

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:48:51 EDT, Jay Ashworth said: Will they not complain about having their equipment utilization go up with no recompense -- for something that is only of benefit to commercial customers of some other entity? Like their load didn't go up with no recompense this morning.

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com Isn't the real problem with global multicast: How do we ultimately bill the broadcaster for all that traffic amplification that happened *inside* every

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Dan White
On 29/04/11 14:04 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:48:51 EDT, Jay Ashworth said: Will they not complain about having their equipment utilization go up with no recompense -- for something that is only of benefit to commercial customers of some other entity? Like

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Will they not complain about having their equipment utilization go up with no recompense -- for something that is only of benefit to commercial customers of some other entity? Sorry, but are your eyeballs not already paying you for

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Simon Lockhart si...@slimey.org On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Will they not complain about having their equipment utilization go up with no recompense -- for something that is only of benefit to commercial customers of some

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 03:03:47PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: The real problem I see myself is that *the Mbone has to be pervasive* (or mostly so) for this to be a worthwhile investment for providers. What is missing is an adaptive client (be it flash, or HTML5) which will transparently use

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Silas Moeckel
On 4/29/2011 2:47 PM, Dan White wrote: On 29/04/11 14:04 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:48:51 EDT, Jay Ashworth said: What's the break-even point, the number of streams being sent at once where multicasting it starts taking less resources than N unicast streams?

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread George Bonser
From: Jay Ashworth Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:13 AM To: NANOG Subject: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...) - Original Message - From: Ryan Malayter On Apr 28, 11:14 pm, Jay Ashworth wrote: (cough)multicast(cough) But... but...

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: George Bonser gbon...@seven.com 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

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread John Levine
Delivering multicast to end users is fundamentally not hard. The biggest issue seems to be with residential CPE (pretty much the same problem as IPv6, really). Well, more than that, since I don't really want my DSL pipe saturated with TV that I'm not watching, you need some way for the CPE to

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Fri Apr 29 12:24:21 2011 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:23 -0300 Subject: Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...) From: Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com To: Nanog nanog@nanog.org Isn't the real problem with

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread George Bonser
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 It would be done the same way it is done currently with cable TV. Who

RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread George Bonser
Well, more than that, since I don't really want my DSL pipe saturated with TV that I'm not watching, you need some way for the CPE to tell the ISP send me stream N That is what igmp is for. Only send what I specifically request.

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:48:51 -0700, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com And that's the snap answer, yes. But the *load*, while admittedly lessened over unicast, falls *mostly* to the carriers, who cannot anymore bill for it,

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:44 PM, John Levine wrote: Delivering multicast to end users is fundamentally not hard. The biggest issue seems to be with residential CPE (pretty much the same problem as IPv6, really). Well, more than that, since I don't really want my DSL pipe saturated with TV