Comment on On a BoatComments−ale425moApart from actual support on real networks, isn't this the problem IP multicast was supposed to solve ages ago?−kixelated5moYep, it's similar to multicast but L7.But a huge difference is that there's a plan for congestion. We heavily rely on QUIC to drain network queues and prioritize/queue media based on importance. It's doable with multicast+unicast, but complicated.
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Apart from actual support on real networks, isn't this the problem IP multicast was supposed to solve ages ago?
Yep, it's similar to multicast but L7.
But a huge difference is that there's a plan for congestion. We heavily rely on QUIC to drain network queues and prioritize/queue media based on importance. It's doable with multicast+unicast, but complicated.