RE: BitTorrentvs MBONE

Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Fri, 16 September 2005 04:58 UTC

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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
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Subject: RE: BitTorrentvs MBONE
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> Does MBONE work through any NAT box on the planet?
>
> I can't imagine bothering to download a program if there is less than a
> 10% chance it will work for me.
>
> A communication program by definition needs two sites so the probability
> of it working is less than 1%.
>
> And for multicast to be an advantage there has to be at least 3 people
> so we are down to 0.1% probability of working.

This is a situation that AMT tries to help:
http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-04.txt

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