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

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On 10/23/07, Joe Provo <nanog-post () rsuc gweep net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > On 22-okt-2007, at 18:12, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > The problem here is that they seem to be using a sledge hammer:
> > BitTorrent is essentially left dead in the water.
>
> Wrong - seeding from scratch, that is uploading without any
> download component, is being clobbered. Seeding back into the
> swarm works while one is still taking chunks down, then closes.
> Essentially, all clients into a client similar to BitTyrant
> and focuses on, as Charlie put it earlier, customers downloading
> stuff.
>
> Joe

If seeding from scratch is detected by an ISP/NSP, and terminated, what
happens when the Bittorrent clients evolve to detect this behavior and
continue downloading even after the total transfer is complete (in order to
permit themselves to seed). Would this unnecessary "dummy" downloading cause
a non-significant amount of network traffic?

-brandon