Laird
@lodgenet.net
|  P4P is open
This is a very good discussion, and it's great to see a group of informed people disussing technical issues.
One thing I'd like to point out is that P4P isn't in any way proprietary to Pando. While we ran this test (with Yale, and the ISP's) and issued this press release, the P4P Working Group is open to any ISP and P2P company to participate freely. There are over 50 organizations in the P4P Working Group, including all of the major P2P companies, and many ISP's and universities, working together so that we all benefit by making p2p be more efficient. My hope is that all p2p networks and ISP's implement P4P, because that's best for the p2p industry.
A second point that I'll make is that P4P doesn't constrain the p2p network to only communicate within an ISP. P4P provides guidance to the p2p network so that it can choose to connect peers within an ISP if they are available, because that's best for the users (local data = fastest downloads) but the p2p network can freely connect peers across ISP's, etc., as needed to deliver data. |
