[73608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Byron L. Hicks)
Mon Aug 30 15:25:39 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:21:03 -0600
From: "Byron L. Hicks" <bhicks@nmsu.edu>
To: Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org>,
Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8809CAD3-FAB4-11D8-B320-000A95AFF5A0@usip.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Not true. For those of us who host Akamai servers, we could download SP2
with no problems. We did not need P2P, or MSDN. In fact, I would be very
reluctant to trust a Windows update downloaded via P2P.
--
Byron L. Hicks
Network Engineer
NMSU ICT
On 8/30/04 12:43 PM, "Jeff Wheeler" <jwheeler@usip.org> wrote:
>
> My two cents:
> When Windows XP SP2 was released the only way to get it (for those of
> us not part of MSDN at least) was via P2P. The same has been true for
> countless other large but important software releases on various
> platforms (particularly ones like Linux that aren't backed by huge
> corporations with tons of bandwidth to host these sorts of files).
>
> Point is? P2P is extremely valuable for the timely and cost-effective
> delivery of critical updates to the masses.
>
> --
> Jeff Wheeler
> Postmaster, Network Admin
> US Institute of Peace
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Henry Linneweh wrote:
>
>>
>> So I would like some professional expert opinion to
>> give her on this issue since it will effect the
>> copyright inducement bill. Real benefits for
>> production and professional usage of this technology.
>>
>> -Henry
>
