11 Oct
2020
11 Oct
'20
7:37 p.m.
On 10/11/20 02:11, Rob Janssen via 44Net wrote:
If you're offering to organize, create and open-source a conferencing
system that does what Zoom does AND SCALES UP, be my guest! You could
even apply to us for a grant...
Seriously, this touches on one of my pet topics: IP multicasting. A huge
amount of work went into the development of IP multicast protocols in
the 1980s and 1990s, yet nearly all of it has been stillborn. It sees
use only in walled gardens like AT&T Uverse (an IPTV over VDSL service
in the US) and in degenerate form for intra-net resource discovery on LANs.
Most (if not nearly all) of the Internet's traffic is fundamentally
multicast in nature. Even this mailing list is a many-to-many
communication. I'm continually appalled by the willingness of commercial
services to simply throw money, computers and fiber at replicating and
sending unicast packets on a petabyte scale while ignoring the
technology and protocols invented to solve this exact problem in a
scalable and cost-effective way.
Clearly there's an opportunity here for any group motivated by the
desire to do it right. It's something I could certainly support within ARDC.
Phil
Sorry about
the glitches at the beginning. Jitsi was giving us problems
(frozen or long-delayed video, etc) so I made the call to switch to
Zoom. We regularly use zoom internally within ARDC for Board and Grant
Advisory Committee meetings and it has performed well; it also seemed to
work well today.
I am a bit disappointed that, as a group of radio amateurs active in
IP networking,
supposedly the people who know all about how to setup a communication
system
all by themselves, we have to resort to a system like zoom.us to hold
a conference.