Foreword
It is with great pleasure that I introduce Brian Edwards, Leonard Giuliano, and Brian Wright's book Interdomain Multicast Routing. I expect the publication of this text will improve the networking community's understanding of the promise of multicast.
In thinking about multicast, I'm drawn to two topics that the authors discuss in the introductory chapter: the question of multicast's killer application and the complexity of multicast (reverse path forwarding, packet replication, the many routing protocols in the control plane, the unique requirements of multicast with respect to scaling and network management, etc.).
One reaction to the killer application question is the observation that the ability to deliver the same content to many users ...
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