Woundy, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
> 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.

   From my perspective, I see the same thing. Any failure in that
respect, IMHO, is due to inertia, not enmity.

> 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.

   To the extent it would improve their users' experience, however
slightly, I believe this to be true.

> 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.

   These are by no means the only problems, but they are areas which
will almost certainly bear fruit.

> We have a proposal that we believe helps solve the problem to the
> satisfaction of both communities.

   Of the several proposals presented today, I believe any could 
have real benefits.

   However, all of them seemed to worry overmuch about an imagined
conflict of interests. I wish we could just let go of that belief,
design a protocol that hives good information in both directions
_and_ is easily expandable, and get some experience with it.

> Can we agree as a WG that there is no 'hemispherical conflict'?

   Pretty please!!

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John Leslie <[email protected]>
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