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At 01:37 PM 10/8/98 -0400, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>John Meylor wrote:
>> 
>> Chris Rapier wrote:
>> >
>> > I still do not think MBONE and MBONE applications are a mature
technology nor
>> > do I think there currently exists the business incentive to develop them
>> > fully.
>> [clip]
>>  However, please prove me wrong. Show me it is a
>> > serious competitor. I would rather that it was and that I am misinformed.
>> 
>> Remember when folks said the same thing about Mosaic
>> and that web thing?
>
>Interesting comparison, as both emerged into the "technical public" at
>roughly the same time (1992). Care to compare relative success :-)?

I think this is an apples to orangutans comparison.  Mosaic was an
extremely compelling application that could use an existing infrastructure
(unicast Internet) to become widely popular.  

Once we get a multicast Internet infrastructure in place to some degree,
some multicast application is likely to do the same.  I personally don't
think that the application will be video.  I've long held that an
audio-conference app with WB or other similar data-sharing, multicast
application is a much more possible candidate for the "killer" app.  If and
when Microsoft bundles this sort of simplistic multicast-based, meeting
application into WinXX, I think the demand for multicast will really take
off.  Given the current bandwidth of the Internet, widespread use of
multicast video applications seems like a nonstarter to me.

Beau Williamson