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Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Oct 21 20:08:09 2007

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:08:47 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0710221237090.4109@localhost.localdomain>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Simon Lyall wrote:

> So stop whinging about how bitorrent broke your happy Internet, Stop
> putting in traffic shaping boxes that break TCP and then complaining
> that p2p programmes don't follow the specs and adjust your pricing and
> service to match your costs.

So which ISPs have contributed towards more intelligent p2p content
routing and distribution; stuff which'd play better with their networks?
Or are you all busy being purely reactive? 

Surely one ISP out there has to have investigated ways that p2p could
co-exist with their network..




Adrian


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