Re: Vikings upset Karmazin

[umar@nerodia.wcrb.com]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Irrelevant strawman.  Multicast delivery is a fundamental property of
> almost every subnetwork layer, and the technology already exists to
> make one-way ``broadcast-style'' multicast scaleable across the
> wide-area network.

I'm skeptical that multicasting can make Internet transmission as
efficient as over-the-air broadcasting. Internet radio is still going to
require a lot of extra infrastructure that broadcast radio doesn't need. 

Rob Landry
umar@nerodia.wcrb.com