Re: Multicast

[Katsushi Kobayashi <ikob at koganei.wide.ad.jp>]

Ohta san,

ISP talking with you intend to charge whether sender, reciever
or both ?　I guess some ISP would not like to start multicast
service, even if subscriber request it. They might sometimes
say as an excuse what you heard.

I think there are a lot of way to make a special charge for special
service without resource reservation protocol as you think, even
if you say "It is not scalable way" :)

Masataka Ohta wrote:

>
> I've heard that ISPs, which were expecting to receive special charge
> for multicast service, are now bitterly recognizing one aspect of the
> relationship that, even if multicast is free, customers do not bother
> to use multicast if they pay flat rate to receive any amount of unicast
> traffic
>