Hi, Jeffrey
The ALTO service tries to make P2P applications ISP-friendly. It has been becoming a common sense that ISP and P2P application providers cooperate to achieve the win-win situation. Therefore, ISPs have its own benefit considerations to reveal its information to ALTO services. Of course, the confidentiality and privacy should be guaranteed. By the way, ALTO service may discover the information from some sources other than ISPs. For example, ALTO server can be deployed by the third party provider which has some contracts with ISPs to get the information. For P2P service providers, ALTO service is like an oracle that you only needs to query. That’s my understanding:) Tao Ma Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Mobile lIfe and New mEdia(MINE) Lab --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [alto] just wondering if ISPs are willing to reveal its network information for ALTO service ||Dear all, I am new here. I and my colleagues are designing P2P Streaming Service as software vendors do. I think ALTO service is very helpful for enhancing P2P service performance. >From my point of view, I think the most important component will be ALTO Server collecting network and traffic information provided by network operators (say ISP). But I am just wondering if ISPs are willing to reveal its network information. Do you think the probability of ISP revealing such information is high or low? Without ALTO Server collecting network and traffic information from ISP, our P2P streaming service provider can do nothing on ALTO, I think. Thanks a lot. BR, Jeffrey
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