There will need to be a change in the way that ISPs work for this to succeed. Right now, ISPs assume that most users download about 10 times the amount of data that they upload. With typical web content, this is normally true - the user requests a web-page and the web-page is served from various points. There's a lot more in the web-page than in the request.
If the ISPs continue to architect their networks in this way, IPFS will not reach its potential as the user end-nodes won't be able to serve cached content to other user end-nodes - after the ISP cap has been reached. The end result will be that computers serving up content will be somewhat closer but, at best, they will be just outside the ISP user infrastructure. The advocates of IPFS need to convince the Comcasts and other ISPs that it will benefit them. Right now, they are all hitting the wall with respect to backbone bandwidth - that's why video streaming is not good most evenings during "primetime". If the ISPs will let their customers have identical up and down limits (and maybe not count traffic not outside of the ISP), they can manage their backbone bandwidth problem. Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Article: > http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/04/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late/ > > Tom Johnson > > > Sent with MailTrack > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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