[73614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Mon Aug 30 16:09:58 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: "Byron L. Hicks" <bhicks@nmsu.edu>,
Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org>,
Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <413384A3.3080700@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Byron L. Hicks wrote:
> >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.
> How is the p2p checksum different from any other checksum on the file?
the cynic in me says that the senator is looking for our arguments in
favor of p2p, so that she knows exactly how to argue against us and
exactly how to write a bill to hurt us the most.
recall that feinstein is one of the loudest anti-p2p legislators.
i am not sure anyone should be helping her.
-Dan
