> Won't this approach (using a ISP-managed intermediate) > ultimately end up being co-opted by the lawyers for the > various industry "interest groups" > and thus be ignored by the p2p users?
To bring this back to network operations, it doesn't much matter what lawyers and end users do. The bottom line is that if P2P traffic takes up too much bandwidth at the wrong points of the network or the wrong times of day, then ISPs will do things like blocking it, disrupting connections(Comcast), and traffic shaping (artificial congestion). The end users will get slower downloads as a result. Or, everybody can put their heads together, make something that works for ISPs operationally, and give the end users faster downloads. The whole question is how to multicast content over the Internet in the most cost effective way. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
