Fun new policy at AOL
Petri Helenius
pete at he.iki.fi
Thu Aug 28 16:14:48 UTC 2003
Matthew Crocker wrote:
>
> Technically no, There is no reason for a customer to have direct
> access to the net so long as the ISP can provide appropriate proxies
> for the services required.
> It gets complex, it gets hard to manage but it can be done. There is
> a stigma against proxing because of the early days when stale content
> was all over the place. Does a dynamically assigned dialup/DSL user
> even need a valid routable IP? For games? Maybe games should be
> more NAT friendly.
How many ISPs actively provide ALG´s for the 50% of their traffic which
consists of the
peer2peer applications? Or is the most popular "killer app" not a
required service?
RIAA & friends would love you if you declared HTTP the only allowed
protocol. Would
also give a boost to the applications implementing IP over HTTP.
Pete
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