[59842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Jul 22 20:41:02 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:40:20 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Cc: "Owings, Curtis L [GMG]" <curtis.l.owings@mail.sprint.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030723002347.8034B5DD9B@segue.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Since some p2p programs now use well known port numbers allocated to other
things eg port 80, is it even possible to block/rate limit them? And have folks
attempts at blocking caused this move to use such port numbers which imho is not
a good thing..
Steve
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
>
>
> > Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e.
> > rate-limiting, blocking, etc)?
> >
>
> no
>
> > Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic?
>
> no
>
> > Are you imposing other total traffic download/upload limits?
>
> no
>
> Additional comment: we market based on "no limits" and so far have
> met our expectations of doing very well against competitors that
> limit. I don't think limiting is viable in the long run...
>
> regards,
> fletcher
>
