[61375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Aug 28 12:21:29 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:14:48 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4236FCAF-D971-11D7-828E-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Matthew Crocker wrote:
>
> Technically no, There is no reason for a customer to have direct
> access to the net so long as the ISP can provide appropriate proxies
> for the services required.
> It gets complex, it gets hard to manage but it can be done. There is
> a stigma against proxing because of the early days when stale content
> was all over the place. Does a dynamically assigned dialup/DSL user
> even need a valid routable IP? For games? Maybe games should be
> more NAT friendly.
How many ISPs actively provide ALG´s for the 50% of their traffic which
consists of the
peer2peer applications? Or is the most popular "killer app" not a
required service?
RIAA & friends would love you if you declared HTTP the only allowed
protocol. Would
also give a boost to the applications implementing IP over HTTP.
Pete
