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Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
If only a few protocol/applications are causing a problem, why do you need an overly complex response? Why not target the few things that are causing problems?Well, because when you promise someone an Internet connection, they usually expect it to work. Is it reasonable for Comcast to unilaterally decide that my P2P filesharing of my family photos and video clips is bad?
So what about the other 490 people on the node expecting it to work? Do you tell them sorry, but 10 of your neighbors are using badly behaved applications so everything you are trying to use it for is having problems. Maybe Comcast should just tell the other 490 neighbors the 10 names and addresses of poorly behaved P2P users and let the neighhood
solve the problem.Is it reasonable for your filesharing of your family photos and video clips to cause problems for all the other users of the network? Is that fair or just greedy?
Current thread:
- RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?, (continued)
- RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Frank Bulk (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Rich Groves (Oct 22)
- RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Frank Bulk (Oct 23)
- RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Frank Bulk (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Gadi Evron (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Joe Greco (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Matthew Kaufman (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Eric Spaeth (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 21)
- RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Frank Bulk (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Ron da Silva (Oct 26)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Joe Greco (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Eric Spaeth (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Joe Greco (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Daniel Senie (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Jim Popovitch (Oct 21)