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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: So your recommendation is that universities, enterprises and ISPs simply stop offering all Internet service because a few particular application protocols are badly behaved? Comcast's management has publically stated anyone who doesn't like the network management controls on its flat rate service can upgrade to Comcat's business class service. Problem solved? Or would some P2P folks complain about having to pay more money? Or do general per-user ratelimiting that is protocol/application agnostic. As I mentioned previously about the issues involving additional in-line devices and so on in networks, imposing per user network management and billing is a much more complicated task. If only a few protocol/applications are causing a problem, why do you need an overly complex response? Why not target the few things that are causing problems? A better idea might be for the application protocol designers to improve those particular applications. It took a while, but it worked with the UDP audio/video protocol folks who used to stress networks. Eventually those protocol designers learned to control their applications and make them play nicely on the network.
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