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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: audio/video again
In message <[email protected]>, "Larry J. Plato" writes: > > > > 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 If roque applications become too widespread, a scalable yet "fair" forwarding scheme such as SFQ will become a necessity (Stochastic Fair Queueing, for those unfamiliar). A few routers already are beginning to experiment with such options. In that case the net friendly application may also be the one that runs faster. Curtis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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