[105357] in North American Network Operators' Group
A pipe dream? [WAS: Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Wed Jun 18 16:51:23 2008
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:50:37 -0600
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:42:22PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
[...]
> <random type="idea from tonight">
> If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for
> their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y)
> torrents pre-seeded from trusted sources and then leaving it the hell
> alone and not having to continuously dump specific torrent files into
> it.
> </random>
Modifying the P2P protocols might help find good seeds, etc. However,
I always like to take this thought a bit further and combine it
with a particular Network Neutrality "solution."
Imagine a world where "Net Neutral" means that you have a neutral
layer 2 architecture and you're free to choose the layer 3 provider.
(Model it on US West/Qwest's original DSL product.)
Then, sprinkle in a *bunch* of ISPs that must have transparent
layer 3 policies. Let them block/fold/mutilate/spindle/synthesize
packets at their whim -- as long as they *tell* the customer
what they're going to do.
In the end, I can see ISPs that do *nothing* to your traffic, and
charge what we would call "normal" pricing. There would be cut-rate
ISPs that would promise best-effort, but will throttle if they have
congestion issues.
If you're an ISP, you might even try to cut a deal with the RIAA
and/or MPAA so your customers have *fast* access to legitimate
content. As a content provider, I would look seriously into
subsidizing the access costs so that I could capture an
end user...
Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...
