Re: Auto-tunnel Rant

[George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>]

I believe large amounts of edge network will *never* be multicast enabled
because the clue density drops as you approach the edge.

So without this feature, end-users in 2 or 3 subtier networks will be
unable to link back to core multicast meshes.

Surely your arguments apply just as equally to the proliferation of
auto-discovery of unicast route/path methods embedded in the applications?

And, while s/w developers may have less motivation, content *hosters* have
to scale backend platforms for large amounts of parallel feed knowing that
they could reduce their copy cycle to a fraction if they had effective fanout.

Watching two people in the same cubicle connect to the same service and
listen to the same source on a 2 second lag from each other tends to
re-inforce a view there is a role for a simple lightweight tunnel method.

You might as well rant against SSH enabled VPN and Cisco GRE at the same
time.

cheers
	-George