Re: [p2pi] Charter and problem statement

[Reinaldo Penno <rpenno at juniper.net>]

Hello Nicholas,

If ALTO could be used to track illegitimate peers, then I'm not sure ALTO
will help ISPs the way they expect. And that could jeopardize the future of
ALTO.

We are here today because of illegal filesharing, let's not forget that, not
because of legal downloads, legal content viewing, etc.

Although we foresee many legitimate uses for ALTO, the amount of illegal
filesharing dwarfs any other legal use of P2P.

I would suggest ALTO to stay away from any content related activities as a
IETF WG.  

Thanks,

Reinaldo

On 7/22/08 9:33 AM, "Nicholas Weaver" <nweaver at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
> 
>> Damien Saucez wrote:
>>> Maybe it is better to discuss if ALTO has to determine legit. of
>>> content or not. IMHO, it is not a protocol design problem.
>> 
>> Damien: ALTO will not -- and cannot -- determine the legitimacy of
>> the content.  This is in the draft charter (see last couple of
>> lines of http://alto.tilab.com/docs/charter.txt), plus this was
>> also discussed at the IETF/MIT workshop.
>> 
>> I doubt the ADs will let us progress too far if we go down the
>> path of enforcing content legitimacy.
> 
> However, can ALTO be used as an oracle to find the peers distributing
> illegitimate content, once an illegitimate content identifier has been
> discovered by the legitimate content owner?
> 
> Should this be considered a requirement in any direction (MUST
> enable?  MUST prohibit?)
> 
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