1. Despite the evidence that Internet multicast was ineffective, the designers of IPv6 chose to specify that IPv6 should depend heavily on multicast. Read about the effect of politics in standards...

1. Despite the evidence that Internet multicast was ineffective, the designers of IPv6 chose to specify that IPv6 should depend heavily on multicast. Read about the effect of politics in standards organizations, and write a short report.

2. Which multicast protocols allow a multicast message to be sent before the protocol has established routes?

3. Is multicast widely deployed in the Internet? Explain.