[100365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Mon Oct 22 12:12:15 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:54:20 -0700
From: Bora Akyol <bora.akyol@aprius.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0710210206490.11191@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean
I don't think this is an issue of "fairness." There are two issues at play
here:
1) Legal Liability due to the content being swapped. This is not a technical
matter IMHO.
2) The breakdown of network engineering assumptions that are made when
network operators are designing networks.
I think network operators that are using boxes like the Sandvine box are
doing this due to (2). This is because P2P traffic hits them where it hurts,
aka the pocketbook. I am sure there are some altruistic network operators
out there, but I would be sincerely surprised if anyone else was concerned
about "fairness"
Regards
Bora
