Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
1 edit | reply to funchords
Re: I have candy!
I think the P4P technology on the ISP side only tracks IP addresses and not hashes (derived from this statement "the iTracker makes available only network topology information").
You would still need to contact the 3rd party tracker to get hashes and IPs for clients with the files, but then, with the P4P tech you can compare the P2P tracker lists with the P4P tracker lists to see if there are any intersections of the IP addresses.
Basically intersect the list of who has the file with the list of who is located near you. If there are hits, then you use those IP addresses first. If not then broaden your P4P list to people who are slightly farther away.
If you implement it this way, by using a file tracker and a topology tracker, ISP's can optomise P2P traffic without having to worry about being liable as a file tracker. They aren't tracking files, just topology. The client would use the topology information to optimize their connection choices, but not be reliant on the ISP to find other P2P clients. |
