[100605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Bethke)
Mon Oct 29 08:38:04 2007
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:37:21 +0100
From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B00145E74E@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
michael.dillon@bt.com schrieb:
> If P2P software relied on an ISP middlebox to mediate the transfers,
> then each middlebox could optimize the local situation by using a whole
> smorgasbord of tools.
Are there any examples of middleware being adopted by the market? To me, it
looks like the clear trend is away from using ISP-provided applications and
services, towards pure packet pushing (cf. HTTP proxies, proprietary
information services). I'm highly sceptical that users would want to adopt
any software that ties them more to their ISP, not less.
Stefan
