[101646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Jan 15 04:01:38 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:56:30 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080115184348.fe044953.nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote:
> But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant
> and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we
> used to be able to assume people would use networks they're connected
> to. "Left running" P2P is the fat man never leaving and never stopping
> eating.
ffs, stop with the crappy analogies.
The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built increasingly
cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to shifting
technologies.
Just like the telcos I recall everyone blasting when I was last actually
involved in networks bigger than a university campus.
Adrian
