[3673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: audio/video again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Wed Aug 7 23:49:13 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 23:45:37 -0400
From: "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@netheaven.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608061202.FAA21193@lint.cisco.com>
Paul Ferguson writes:
> >How would you feel if Pointcast slowly backed off and increased the time
> >period between updates, but at the touch of a key or movement of the mouse
> >it would go back to the "knob" setting? Obviously a low volume data feed
> >like Pointcast may not be that big a load on the net but the heuristics
> >(which do involve human factors) could probably be applied to a lot of
> >other things like video feeds that will be bigger bandwidth consumers.
> I think this sounds fine, but I don't think you need an RFC to dictate
> it. This would be a competitive advantage for an application, methinks.
This comment got me wondering, and I don't like where I wound up ...
Would it be a competitive advantage? As far as responsible users go,
it probably would.
That brings up irresponsible users - users who don't care about their
impact, and even worse hacker-type users who would deliberately bring
down the net if they could ... how long before someone figures out how
to make a server direct a Real Audio stream (or whatever) at someone
else? The leverage for hackers could be enormous.
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Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
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