[vorbis-dev] RFC draft for Vorbis over RTP

[Maik Merten]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> A possible method of transmitting headers via unicast would be with via
> http with URL transmitted in SDP. The advantage of using HTTP would be
> that existing scalablity mechnisms (such as squid cache hierarchys or
> reverse proxys like Akamai) for HTTP could be used.

What will happen when you have _a lot_ of listeners for your streams? 
Won´t thousands (worst case?) of clients requesting headers over HTTP at 
the same time result in some sort of "DoS-attack"?

Maik


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