On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:58:24AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > Bittorrent's new udp protocol is an attempt to address the problems > and make bittorrent more palatable to business users and isps because > it does have it's own built-in controls now to make it coexist better > with other forms of traffic that were previously harmed. I don't > think they've done this without thinking about the long-term > consequences. Nor is this an attempt to somehow beat ISP throttling.
Interesting. So does this mean that Bittorrent is implementing an alternative form of congestion control? As you point out, that would really change the story. I'm still curious, though, about what would happen if we had net neutrality laws and some application tried to beat ISP throttling with a very aggressive protocol. I'm wondering how a staunch net neutralist would view this hypothetical situation. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
