RE: [AVT] RFC3550 RTP Session defintion Qi

["John Lazzaro" <lazzaro at eecs.berkeley.edu>]

Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org> writes:
> I suspect that most implementations of RTP will only handle
> point-to-point sessions because that fits the circuit mindset.
> However, I still believe that designing RTP to scale from P2P to
> thousands using a lightweight session mechanism was an important
> contribution to networking technology and was the right thing to do.

If RTP wasn't designed for multicast from the outset, I don't think I 
would
be seeing the RTP MIDI interest I'm seeing from the fixed installation
isolated-network pro world (people doing networks to control lights
on stages).  They've previously mapped MIDI right to Layer 2 broadcast,
so having to move to a slew of unicast connections would be a 
non-starter
for them.

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John Lazzaro
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lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
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