Assigning Multicast Addresses
Listing to the debates in the IETF on multicast address assignment
has me wondering if they have missed the point. I'm having a vision of
a large multinational
ISP decideing to 'sell' a fixed IP address to a content provider (say, CNN),
and the content provider just streamed content out. For the right amount
of money, the ISP could guarantee a fixed amount of bandwidth for the
multicast traffic.