Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

[Richard Barnes <richard.barnes () gmail com>]

I thought the issue was more about  ISPs encouraging *responsible* P2P.


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Warren Bailey <wbailey () gci com> wrote:
> Can someone name an ISP that encourages P2P traffic?? ;)
>
> Sent from a mobile phone with a small keyboard, please excuse my mistakes.
>
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:32 PM, "Richard Barnes" <richard.barnes () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > There's some standardization work being done in the IETF ALTO working
> > group.  They're looking at ways ISPs can inform P2P clints about which peers
> > are "better", I.e., topologically nearby.
> > http://tools.ietf.org/wg/alto/
> >
> > I'm less familiar with DECADE, but I believe they're working on more
> > directly cache-related stuff.
> > http://tools.ietf.org/wg/decade/
> >
> > On Sep 25, 2010 4:44 PM, "Matthew Walster" <matthew () walster org> wrote:
> >
> > On 25 September 2010 21:16, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com> wrote:
> > > I think most people are...
> > <snip>
> >
> > I once read an article talking about making BitTorrent scalable by
> > using anycasted caching services at the ISP's closest POP to the end
> > user. Given sufficient traffic on a specified torrent, the caching
> > device would build up the file, then distribute that direct to the
> > subscriber in the form of an additional (preferred) peer. Similar to a
> > CDN or Usenet, but where it was cached rather than deliberately pushed
> > out from a locus.
> >
> > Was anything ever standardised in that field? I imagine with much of
> > P2P traffic being (how shall I put this...) less than legal, it's of
> > questionable legality and the ISPs would not want to be held liable
> > for the content cached there?
> >
> > M