[3684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: audio/video again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Thu Aug 8 12:02:22 1996
To: "Larry J. Plato" <ljp@ans.net>
cc: stpeters@netheaven.com (Dick St.Peters), nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Aug 1996 04:57:25 -0000."
<199608080457.EAA00363@septum.aa.ans.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 11:55:38 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199608080457.EAA00363@septum.aa.ans.net>, "Larry J. Plato" writes:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
>
> I pretty much agree with you,
>
> My first thought was this would be a disadvantage, since most
> users have no clue about the working of the net, but they know
> that application <bandwidth hog> 'runs faster' than application
> <net friendly>.
>
> It's the old grazing on the commons thing,
>
> Larry Plato
> Speaking for myself
If roque applications become too widespread, a scalable yet "fair"
forwarding scheme such as SFQ will become a necessity (Stochastic Fair
Queueing, for those unfamiliar). A few routers already are beginning
to experiment with such options. In that case the net friendly
application may also be the one that runs faster.
Curtis
