[178615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Sun Mar 1 10:24:15 2015
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Scott,
Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between
servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running
locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment?
Miles Fidelman
Scott Helms wrote:
>
> Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without
> significant changes to the protocol or human behavior.
>
> We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years
> and without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric.
>
> On Mar 1, 2015 9:11 AM, "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net
> <mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>> wrote:
>
> Aled Morris wrote:
>
>
> Sadly we don't have many "killer applications" for symmetric
> residential
> bandwidth, but that's likely because we don't have the
> infrastructure to
> incubate these applications.
>
>
> Come to think of it, if USENET software wasn't so cumbersome, I
> kind of wonder if today's "social network" would consist of home
> servers running NNTP - and I expect the traffic would be very
> symmetric. (For that matter, with a few tweaks, the USENET model
> would be great for "groupware" - anybody remember the Netscape
> communications server that added private newsgroups and
> authentication to the mix?)
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>
>
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