[73627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Aug 30 17:15:39 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:03:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040830125046.064d99f0@mira-sjc5-b.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Fred Baker wrote:
> This kind of a "you're different and therefore wrong" mismatch has made
> complete hash out of quite a variety of discussions concerning user
> experience and user requirements on the Internet. Please listen carefully
> when someone talks about having limited rate access. The assumptions that
> are obviously true in your (SP) world are completely irrelevant in theirs.
> If you want their opinions - and this opinion was explicitly requested -
> you have to respect them when they are offered, not just bash them as
> different from your experience.
I've always wondered what really makes P2P different from anything else on
the Internet? From the service provider's point of view, users accessing
CNN.COM is a peer-to-peer activity between the user and CNN. From the
service provider's point of view, Microsoft and Akamai are peer-to-peer
activities.
Freedom of the press belongs to those that can afford to buy a press.
