The WG chairs' diagram in the second ALTO session today portrayed a war between
ISPs unwilling to provide topology information to the ALTO client, and P2P
applications unwilling to provide any information to the ALTO server.
The image is strong, but it does not seem to reflect the reality that we are
seeing. From our perspective, while the ISPs have constraints about what they
can disclose, the ISPs are still able to provide useful policy information to
the P2P applications. P2P applications have concerns about the privacy of their
users, but do want to cooperate with the ISP to optimize network traffic in a
manner beneficial to ISPs.
We are working together to solve an important problem that ISPs and the
Internet have in general: the inefficiency of overlay routing, and lack of
policy information available in machine-readable form. We have a proposal that
we believe helps solve the problem to the satisfaction of both communities.
Can we agree as a WG that there is no 'hemispherical conflict'?
-- Rich Woundy, Comcast
-- Stanislav Shalunov, BitTorrent
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