[ih] reinventing the wheel, was Internet History Lives on the Internet?

[Joe Touch]

Some people called this ‘serial multicast’, vs native. 

Joe

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 1:16 PM, Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu> wrote:
> 
>   If you do multicast at the network layer, you get IP multicast, Steve 
> Deering's thesis project that escaped from the lab and has challenged 
> network engineers ever since.
>   But if you do multicast at the application layer, you get lots of 
> (IP) unicast traffic, but with some of the properties of IP multicast