[ih] "The First Router" on Jeopardy

[Scott Bradner]

> On Nov 23, 2021, at 7:35 PM, Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> And don't even let me get into the politics of selling better network
> transport features only as part of much more expensive and often badly
> worked out application services. IP Multicast for example was for sure
> never be made available to OTT by access-SPs to their subscribres to
> protect the SPs own IPTV service offering against competition, and
> i was often enough involved back when the SPs feared regulation that
> would have forced them offer such a service.


MCI offered many to many IP Multicast as a service but did not get many takers (and figuring out the billing
was rather tricky - since the packets could come from anywhere

Scott