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Multicast UDP is so easy that it has never successfully been deployed at Internet scale.



Building a router that supports multicast UDP is simple. Getting THE INTERNET to all simultaneously upgrade is the hard bit.


Maintaining group-based routing tables for individual pieces of content as opposed to hosts that serve many pieces of content is a hard problem, and no vendor has solved it.




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