Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

Mon Oct 22 00:08:47 UTC 2007

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Simon Lyall wrote:

> So stop whinging about how bitorrent broke your happy Internet, Stop
> putting in traffic shaping boxes that break TCP and then complaining
> that p2p programmes don't follow the specs and adjust your pricing and
> service to match your costs.

So which ISPs have contributed towards more intelligent p2p content
routing and distribution; stuff which'd play better with their networks?
Or are you all busy being purely reactive? 

Surely one ISP out there has to have investigated ways that p2p could
co-exist with their network..

Adrian