[100300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Oct 21 13:02:04 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:51:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710211812590.15766@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> If your network cannot handle the traffic, don't offer the services.
So your recommendation is that universities, enterprises and ISPs simply
stop offering all Internet service because a few particular application
protocols are badly behaved?
A better idea might be for the application protocol designers to improve
those particular applications. In the mean time, universities,
enterprises and ISPs have a lot of other users to serve.
