On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add some concept of locality, with the purpose of moving traffic off ISP networks when I can. I think the user will be just as happy or happier, and folks pushing large optics will certainly be.
When you hear stories like the Icelandic ISP who discovered that P2P was 80% of their submarine bandwidth and promptly implemented P2P throttling, I think that the open source P2P will be driven to it by their user demand.
.. or we could start talking about how Australian ISPs are madly throttling P2P traffic. Not just because of its impact on international trunks, but their POP/wholesale DSL infrastructure method just makes P2P even between clients on the same ISP mostly horrible. Adrian