Re: [p2prg] New version of the mythbuster-ing draft

[Fabio Hecht <hecht at ifi.uzh.ch>]

Hi Enrico,

two suggestion for myths: 

1. Increased Overall Traffic

Considering that "Increased Application Performance" is very likely, it
is possible that P2P file-sharing users will download more files in less
time. Overall traffic at ISPs could therefore increase. Even though the
traffic will preferentially remain intradomain, it could reach a point
where there is an increase even in interdomain traffic. It is difficult
to estimate user behavior though.

2. Shorter Content Lifetime

Also derived from "Increased Application Performance", it is possible
that P2P file-sharing peers will download content faster. In the case of
BitTorrent, for example, many peers would become seeders more quickly
and reach the sharing ratio threshold for stopping seeding faster. The
torrent would more quickly have no more seeders.

Regards

Fabio


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:24 +0200, Enrico Marocco wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we have just submitted an updated version of the draft that, as agreed
> in Stockholm and later on this list, is now an IRTF document and will be
> kept alive for a while to track advances in the field.
> 
> The draft is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-p2prg-mythbustering-00.txt
> 
> Diffs from the previous version can be found at:
> http://tinyurl.com/l2o6yt
> 
> The new version should address most of the comments received on the
> mailing list -- please check if it does -- including comments from
> Arnaud sent back in February that for some reason got lost (my bad).
> 
> The parts that need more work right now are probably those about
> possible impacts on peering/transit agreements and security. We heard
> some insightful comments in Stockholm and it would be great if people
> who have an opinion could share their thought and propose text on the
> list as well.
> 
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