[94375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Jan 20 22:08:58 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070121124422.0fc99c79.nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:51:08 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> It doesn't seem that the P2P
> application developers are doing it, maybe because they don't care
> because it doesn't directly impact them, or maybe because they don't
> know how to. If squid could provide a traffic localising solution
> which
> is just another traffic sink or source (e.g. a server) to an ISP,
> rather than something that requires enabling knobs on the network
> infrastructure for special handling or requires special traffic
> engineering for it to work, I'd think you'd get quite a bit of
> interest.
I think there's interest from the consumer level, already:
http://torrentfreak.com/review-the-wireless-BitTorrent-router/
It's early days, but if this becomes the norm, then the end-users
themselves will end up doing the caching.
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