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Re: a bit like this... said by tmc8080:One thing I want to know, is.. can't intelligent backbones handle most of this already? Yes, but that's actually part of the problem. The Internet is built on standards (see RFC5000) for the current list.
People who make applications for the Internet make them from their local -- such as Santa Monica (an X server), Berlin (a mail client), or Israel (a place-shifting video gizmo).
People who use these applications live where you live, where I live, and where everyone else lives.
What makes this market work is that Internet Standards are what defines the recipe of the Internet.
We can't have the network in the middle behave differently than the Standards say that they should behave, because suddenly all of the expectations break. The mail client doesn't work on Comcast, but the poor developer in Berlin can't figure out why. The X-Server doesn't work EXCEPT on the Santa Monica ISP -- again, some network operator did something unique and the builder thought that's the way the Internet worked everywhere.
The network in the middle was built to be fast, not smart. The end points were built to do the management.
BitTorrent was written to work around congested links TO PREVENT THEM FROM GETTING FURTHER CONGESTED! Yet now we have operators trying to break that model and put the bytes where they want them, instead -- and then complaining about how congested everything becomes. How uber-dumb!*
And yes, it does make connections -- if you run enough swarms simultaneously, it can make hundreds of connections. However, it's only going to use 3-4 of them -- and it does that in order to quickly respond to any signs of congestion.
*Them, not you. Yours was a great question.
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