IPv4 multicast across the Internet will never happen.
The reason is the complexity involved in deployment (multiple protocols, MBGP, MSDP, etc.) and that you have the 'third-party problem'. Basically both transmitters and receivers have to rely on a third-party for a redezvous-point.
Scalable Internet wide multicast deployment *might* happen with IPv6 because some of the issues have been solved (using, for example, embedable rendevous points - negating the need the 3rd parties). However if you look at how ISPs are architectured with xDSL networks, there isn't any incentive to provide multicast at the tail end.
Actually we did have.conf.au for this year's conference. Unfortunately with.au being handed over from Robert Elz to auDA neither party was interested in looking at this domain while they sorted out their differences.
1. Most people now know that new-maintainer has been closed temporarily. Most don't know that it was closed for close to a year. I am sure many people want to know the status of new-maintainer; open, closed or gone for good?
2. Beauracracy. Debian is a large project but it isn't the world's biggest. I'd say the Linux kernel is at least twice as large. Why do you think that Debian has built so much bueracracy when other projects don't? Or do you feel that beauracracy is simple a function of distributions (i.e. all distributions are beaurocratic: Free/Net/Open*BSDs, etc.)
3. You've been working on dpkg and dselect for some time now. I believe you are even intending to write a compatible library (HPML?) to eventually replace them. Care to give us a status report on it?
4. More on packages. In the Linux world.rpm's are dominate right now. What do you feel Debian did to `lose' the packaging war. Do you think it has yet to be fought or will the fight shift to another arena (standard Unix packages?).
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Monstrously yours,
- Naz. I think you mean:
Monstrously yours,
- Summer Glau
One would hope every arsehole was aware of their shit.
IPv4 multicast across the Internet will never happen.
The reason is the complexity involved in deployment (multiple protocols, MBGP, MSDP, etc.) and that you have the 'third-party problem'. Basically both transmitters and receivers have to rely on a third-party for a redezvous-point.
Scalable Internet wide multicast deployment *might* happen with IPv6 because some of the issues have been solved (using, for example, embedable rendevous points - negating the need the 3rd parties). However if you look at how ISPs are architectured with xDSL networks, there isn't any incentive to provide multicast at the tail end.
Actually we did have
1. Most people now know that new-maintainer has been closed temporarily. Most don't know that it was closed for close to a year. I am sure many people want to know the status of new-maintainer; open, closed or gone for good?
.rpm's are dominate right now. What do you feel Debian did to `lose' the packaging war. Do you think it has yet to be fought or will the fight shift to another arena (standard Unix packages?).
2. Beauracracy. Debian is a large project but it isn't the world's biggest. I'd say the Linux kernel is at least twice as large. Why do you think that Debian has built so much bueracracy when other projects don't? Or do you feel that beauracracy is simple a function of distributions (i.e. all distributions are beaurocratic: Free/Net/Open*BSDs, etc.)
3. You've been working on dpkg and dselect for some time now. I believe you are even intending to write a compatible library (HPML?) to eventually replace them. Care to give us a status report on it?
4. More on packages. In the Linux world
I went along to the talk when he was in Sydney, here is a
summary I posted and his follow up.