[ NNSquad ] Re: Keith Dawson: uTorrent Responds Regarding UDP Usage

[Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>]

Can I see a show of hands from all who think that shifting half the 
Internet's traffic to UDP is no big deal?

Regardless of BitTorrent's intentions, this is likely to cause a great 
deal of heartache to the Internet infrastructure. The ISPs believe they 
won't be adversely affected, however, and have said nothing but good 
things about this move.

Maybe I'm just being all alarmist and there's nothing to see here; that 
would be fine with me. But given the history of P2P, the kind of people 
who use it, and the purposes for which it's used (and we all know it's 
not just for distributing Ubuntu,) I'm not real thrilled about the 
long-term consequences. If the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm 
doesn't work well - which is true - why not fix it instead of bypassing it?

The last thing the Internet needs is for this end-to-end thing to be 
taken too literally.

RB

Lauren Weinstein wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:45:32 -0500
> To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
> From: Keith Dawson <kadawson@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ]  Richard Bennett's Take on uTorrent / UDP / VoIP
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> > Richard Bennett's Take on uTorrent / UDP / VoIP
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/
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> Just now in the process of publicizing uTorrent's response,
> which can be summed up as: "utter nonsense."
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> http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/12/01/bittorrent-register-report-protocol-change-utter-nonsense 
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> http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=379206#p379206
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> - -- KDawson
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