[AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

[Mitch Kelly]

Resigned and retired are not the same thing....
On 12/07/2013 1:21 PM, "Narelle" <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 July 2013 14:51, Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>> I don't think it is a good idea to spend lots of time and money on
>>> possibly maybes.
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> It's should be a TCO argument: building something with more forethought
> means you can avoid costs that you will incur later on in the life of the
> asset.
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> With IPv4 vs IPv6 we need to get more scale deployment in order to reduce
> the overall costs we will all incur later. It's all a question of how
> probable the possibilities are and balancing the risk against the cost,
> taking into account all the various affects...
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>> The majority of what we do on networks are electronic analogues of what
>>> we do "IRL" - the names of the applications are a give away e.g., eMAIL,
>>> video CONFERENCING etc. The majority of human communications is unicast or
>>> bidirectional, which is why unicast style applications are the dominant
>>> ones. The entertainment industry might be glamorous, but it pales compared
>>> to the revenue of the telecommunications industry.
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>> The way we consume media is evolving, and the entertainment industry will
>> eventually be dragged, kicking, screaming, biting and spitting, along with
>> us.
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>> Despite what some people think, there isn't sufficient bandwidth in the
>> air to support the continued growth of media consumption, particularly on
>> demand - that's where things like the NBN with its existing and potential
>> bandwidth potentials actually matter for the future.
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> While I am again one of the biggest fans of multicast, the fact is that it
> is complex, and it was conceived with broadcast equivalence largely in
> mind: what we have today are lots of pockets of users watching niche
> content, rather than large scale consumption. Except, perhaps, for the
> cricket when 19yos save the day for struggling nations. I'm sure there's a
> tool out there for traffic modelling that we all need which would magically
> calculate when to swap from a unicast to a multicast model by IP
> address/domain!
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> Cheers
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> Narelle
> narellec at gmail.com
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