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Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:08:47 +0800


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Simon Lyall wrote:

So stop whinging about how bitorrent broke your happy Internet, Stop
putting in traffic shaping boxes that break TCP and then complaining
that p2p programmes don't follow the specs and adjust your pricing and
service to match your costs.

So which ISPs have contributed towards more intelligent p2p content
routing and distribution; stuff which'd play better with their networks?
Or are you all busy being purely reactive? 

Surely one ISP out there has to have investigated ways that p2p could
co-exist with their network..




Adrian


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