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Re:Why TV Lost by trezor on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @05:49PM (#502160)
3) Live television is nearly non-existent online.

Hopefully IPv6 and global multicast should solve this once we finally rid ourself of this ancient thing called IPv4.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re:Why TV Lost by wmf on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @07:11PM (#502279)
You're wrong. :-) ISPs have no plan to enable multicast -- ever. IPv6 "supports" multicast, but it can't force anyone to turn it on. See previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443599
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Re:Why TV Lost by DomesticMouse on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @07:14PM (#502284)
IPv6 makes routing packets harder, not easier.
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Re:Why TV Lost by trezor on Thursday March 05, 2009 @03:33PM (#504698)
Care to elaborate?

I see people are saying that the hierarchical address-assignment is to some extent going out the window, but apart from that, how is IPv6 routing going to be a bigger mess than the current IPv4 routing?

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