In terms of other Internet use, the BBC recently published this white paper on the R&D efforts with HTTP Server Push/QUIC, part of which describes an "experimental IP multicast profile of HTTP over QUIC".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper336 Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks, Network Manager, Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Curtis, Bruce wrote: > Multicast was also required for earlier versions of VXLAN. But later > versions or VXLAN only require unicast. > > For the far future it seems like Named Data Neworking, Content Centric > Networking, Information Centric Networking, Data Centric Networking etc all > list multicast as a requirement or fundamental part of their architecture. > > > On Aug 8, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Greg Shepherd <gjs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Financial exchanges around the world use multicast. > > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Stan Barber <s...@academ.com> wrote: > > > >> As someone else remarked, part of this will depend on the type of network > >> you are profiling. One enterprise networking may have critical internal > >> applications that depend on multicast to work and others may have nothing > >> but the basic requirements of the network itself (e.g. IPv6 uses multicast > >> instead of broadcast for some network control information distribution). > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) via NANOG < > >> nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Every one, > >>> Recently we had good discussion over multicast uses in public internet. > >>> From discussion, it was pointed out uses of multicast is more with in > >>> enterprise. Wanted to understand how much % multicast traffic present in > >>> network > >>> > >>> * If there is any data which can provide what % of traffic is > >>> multicast traffic. And if multicast is removed, how much unicast traffic > >> it > >>> would add up? > >>> * Since this forum has people from deployment area, I would love to > >>> know if there is real deployment problems or its pain to deploy > >> multicast. > >>> > >>> > >>> These questions is to work / discussion in IETF to see what is pain > >> points > >>> for multicast, and how can we simplify it. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Mankamana > >>> > >>> > >> > > > --- > Bruce Curtis bruce.cur...@ndsu.edu > Certified NetAnalyst II 701-231-8527 > North Dakota State University > >
