[codec] #16: Multicast?

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#16: Multicast?
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 Reporter:  hoene@…                 |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  trivial                 |   Milestone:     
Component:  requirements            |     Version:     
 Severity:  Active WG Document      |    Keywords:     
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 The question arrose whether the interactive CODEC MUST support multicast
 in addition to teleconferencing.

 On 04/13/2010 11:35 AM, Christian Hoene wrote:
 >>> P.S. On the same note, does anybody here cares about using this
 >>> CODEC with multicast? Is there a single commercial multicast voice
 deployment?
 >>> From what I've seen all multicast does is making IETF voice
 >>> standards harder to understand or implement.
 >>
 >> I think that would be a mistake to ignore multicast - not because of
 >> multicast itself, but because of Xcast (RFC 5058) which is a
 >> promising technology to replace centralized conference bridges.
 >
 > Regarding multicast:
 >
 > I think we shall start at user requirements and scenarios.
 > Teleconference (including mono or spatial audio) might be good
 > starting point. Virtual environments like second live would require
 multicast communication, too. If the requirements of these scenarios are
 well understand, we can start to talk about potential solutions like IP
 multicast, Xcast or conference bridges.
 >

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