[73644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Parker)
Mon Aug 30 18:56:20 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erik Parker <eparker@mindsec.com>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408301404480.13619@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> A method like P2P (and BT's swarming in particular) allowed this file to
> spread without overtaxing the bandwidth of the person or organization
> distributing it.
>
> Frankly, in a day when news organizations are forced to think about any
> negative impacts of their reporting on their parent corp's agenda, this is a
> must have tech.
Speaking of which.. I wish P2P had been a little bit more organized when 9/11
happened.. Trying to watch the news online, download clips, or images for
those few days following.. was nearly impossible. CNN/TimeWarner should recall
that their entire cluster was destroyed and they had to move back to a
simplified text only page that had nothing on it.. Likewise with Foxnews, but
a little bit to a lesser extent.
In the way Bittorrent works, that day would have been nothing to the normal
people wanting access to the information.. In fact, to some degree, it would
have been even better with the increased load to a point.
If P2p was built upon a little bit, putting in protocols of trust (ala
certificates/signed files, etc.) it could give F5 a run for its money and
lower the cost drastically of certain network designs.
</dream world>
