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.bar...@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" <matt...@walster.org> wrote: > > On 25 September 2010 21:16, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.br...@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
