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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: audio/video again
> > > I think this sounds fine, but I don't think you need an RFC to dictate > > it. This would be a competitive advantage for an application, methinks. > > This comment got me wondering, and I don't like where I wound up ... > > Would it be a competitive advantage? As far as responsible users go, > it probably would. > > That brings up irresponsible users - users who don't care about their > impact, and even worse hacker-type users who would deliberately bring > down the net if they could ... how long before someone figures out how > to make a server direct a Real Audio stream (or whatever) at someone > else? The leverage for hackers could be enormous. > > -- > Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY I pretty much agree with you, My first thought was this would be a disadvantage, since most users have no clue about the working of the net, but they know that application <bandwidth hog> 'runs faster' than application <net friendly>. It's the old grazing on the commons thing, Larry Plato Speaking for myself - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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