Librecast: Privacy and Decentralization with Multicast IPv6 Multicast and the Next Generation Inter…

Librecast: Privacy and Decentralization with Multicast IPv6 Multicast and the Next Generation Internet by Brett Sheffield At: FOSDEM 2020 https://video.fosdem.org/2020/UA2.220/dip_librecast.webm Written in 2001, RFC 3170 states: "IP Multicast will play a prominent role on the Internet in the coming years. It is a requirement, not an option, if the Internet is going to scale. Multicast allows application developers to add more functionality without significantly impacting the network." Nearly two decades later, multicast is still largely ignored and misunderstood. This talk explains why multicast is the missing piece in the decentralization puzzle, how multicast can help the Internet continue to scale, better protect our privacy, solve IOT problems and make polar bears happier at the same time. NB: This is a shortened lightning-talk version of the ❮a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2_b8EeJws"❯full talk❮/a❯ given at Linux.conf.au in January. There are many common miscon