Secure Reliable Multicast; Lab or Wright Brothers?

The most important protocol invented ever is about to find it’s way upon us. It is the protocol that adds security and reliability to IP Multicast.

The Internet has been built on a building blocks approach, and this is where we should stay! The public should control the domain of development of secure reliable IP Multicast. IP Multicast should belong to the public.

Let’s have installed base of secure reliable IP Multicasts determine what is the best way to add reliability and security to the “fire and forget it” IP Multicast model.

Let’s accept a ‘standard’ that has stood the test of continued field operation under heavy load. Let’s create the same kind of environment for IP Multicast that created things like jet engines, telephones and radios.

We hope the creators of these important Internet protocols will act more like the Wright Brothers, because secure reliable IP Multicast is too complex to be solved without hands on involvement. Let’s keep the door open for people who implement these things. Maybe the best ideas will come from them. When security and reliability are added to the IP Multicast model we will begin the start of a new era. Let’s have the public own its mass media. We all win if we do this. The Public Internet has been good for business, just ask the folks at Verisign, ka-ching! Let’s let secure reliable IP Multicast begin to fly without strings. Then the seeds can take root and we can harvest the tree!

Lans Lars

Administrator

IpMulticast.com