Comcast blocking p2p uploads

Tue Oct 23 19:01:19 UTC 2007

Forgot the links =P

http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/p2p

http://www.dcia.info/documents/P4P_Overview.pdf

Keith O'Neill wrote:
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> Actually Pando does try to localize traffic as much as possible. Not 
> only that we have started the P4P Working Group.
>
> Keith
>
> Pando Networks
>
> See link below
>
> Joe Greco wrote:
>>> In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:21:09PM -0400, Joe 
>>> Provo wr=
>>> ote:
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>>>> Content is irrelevent.  BT is a protocol-person's dream and an ISP
>>>> nightmare. The bulk of the slim profit margin exists in taking=20
>>>> advantage of stat-mux oversubscription. BT blows that out of the=20
>>>> water.
>>>>       
>>> I'm a bit confused by your statement.  Are you saying it's more
>>> cost effective for ISP's to carry downloads thousands of miles
>>> across the US before giving them to the end user than it is to allow
>>> a local end user to "upload" them to other local end users?
>>>     
>>
>> It's quite possible that I've completely missed it, but I hadn't seen 
>> many
>> examples of P2P protocols where any effort was made to locate "local"
>> users and prefer them.  In some cases, this may happen due to the 
>> type of
>> content, but I'd guess it to be rare.  Am I missing some new 
>> development?
>>
>> If it isn't being transferred locally, then the ISP is being stuck with
>> the pain of carrying a download thousands of miles, probably from a 
>> peering (or worse, transit) with another ISP that has also had to 
>> carry it some distance.
>>
>> ... JG
>>   
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