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Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:59:52 -0400

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:45:31 +0300, Joe Abley said:

And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic  
engineering already effectively performed at the edge?

"already performed ineffectively at the edge" is probably a better
description of the true state of affairs.   Remember that usually these
things bias their behavior in favor of the person running the program,
not for the benefit of the ISP who's moving the packets....

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