[68580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sun Mar 14 20:47:09 2004
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:22:03 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> > So DOCSIS has a technical limitation which may or may not apply. This
is
> > reasonable justification for limiting upstream bandwidth, not for
specifying
> > that users can't run servers. If users can run servers effectively in
the
> > limited available upstream bandwidth, then there is no _technical_
reason to
> > prevent them.
>
> how are 'servers' (smtp/web/ftp/imap) different than the existing P2P
> apps? Wouldn't a cable provider, if the decision was based on upstream
> bandwidth sharing alone, care MORE about P2P than 'servers' ?
I don't know how common this is, but my ISP's AUP considers P2P apps to be
"servers" and thus banned. I don't use file-sharing apps so this doesn't
really affect me, but I'm betting my SIP phone is technically a violation
too.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
