A simple proposal

Sat May 17 02:18:03 UTC 2014

I agree with Rahul, seems like pointless cycles along the entire path.

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Rahul Sawarkar <srahul.in at gmail.com>wrote:

> You mean consume electricity in  cpu cycles on the end devices and all the
> network middleboxes in between all over the world/Internet  for dud data?
> For what? Just to stop a debate instead of resolving it thought
> intellectual brainstorming? For one thing it will slow down the TCP
> connections as ACKs incur a longer RTT. Then there is the whole question of
> managing and lowering  power consumption as a green initiative, and
> capacity issues are yet another thing.
>
> ~Rahul
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com
> >wrote:
>
> > There's been a whole lot of chatter recently
> > about whether or not it's sensible to require
> > balanced peering ratios when selling heavily
> > unbalanced services to customers.
> >
> > There's a very simple solution, it seems.
> > Just have every website, every streaming
> > service, every bit of consumable internet
> > data have built-in reciprocity.
> >
> > You want to stream a movie?  No problem;
> > the video player opens up a second data
> > port back to a server next to the streaming
> > box; its only purpose is to accept a socket,
> > and send all bits received on it to /dev/null.
> > The video player sends back an equivalent
> > stream of data to what is being received in.
> > The server receiving the upstream data stream
> > checks the bitrate coming into it from the player,
> > and communicates back to the video streaming
> > box every few minutes to lower the outbound
> > bitrate going to the player to match what the
> > inbound bitrate coming from the client is.
> > That way, traffic volumes stay nicely balanced,
> > and everyone is happy.  For extra credit, and
> > to deal with multiple layers of NAT in the v4
> > world, you could even piggyback on the same
> > stream, though that would take just a bit more
> > work.
> >
> > Mobile apps could be programmed the same
> > way; you download a certain amount of data,
> > an equivalent volume of data is sent back
> > upstream to balance it out, and preserve
> > the holy ratio.  Even web pages could use
> > javascript footers to send back upstream an
> > equivalent amount of data to what was
> > downloaded.
> >
> > Once and for all, we could put an end to
> > the ceaseless bickering about ratios, as
> > everyone, everywhere would be forced
> > into glorious unity, a perfect 1:1 ratio
> > wherever the eye should look.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, this should solve
> > *everyone's* concerns from all sides,
> > all in one simple effort.
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ~~~~~~
> Regards
> Rahul
>

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