In message <199608080457.EAA00363@septum.aa.ans.net>, "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