I thought the issue was more about ISPs encouraging *responsible* P2P.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Warren Bailey <wbai...@gci.com> wrote: > 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 >