Adam,
Your assessment of BitTorrent caught my attention.
How is BitTorrent "breaking interoperability with the rest of the
Internet?" Why is it that the unique features of BT "don't come anywhere near
justifying" it?
Peter
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I'm actually talking about the monolithic BitTorrent "protocol" lump of many
different pieces of functionality. There are IETF standards for file
downloading, NAT/firewall traversal, and even resource publishing and lookup
each of which better addresses the various pieces of BitTorrent functionality
and each of which interoperates with more than just other BitTorrents out
there. HTTP is the quintessential example. BitTorrent made the design
decision to break interoperability with the entire rest of the Internet through
not using HTTP for file transfers, making every web server out there an invalid
source for a file. The reason is tit-for-tat and distributing updated source
data, but those don't come anywhere near justifying it in my mind. File
transfer, NAT negotiation, source publishing and lookup, etc, should all
properly be separate protocols as they are in the IETF stack.
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