You mean consume electricity in cpu cycles on the end devices and all the network middleboxes in between all over the world/Internet for dud data? For what? Just to stop a debate instead of resolving it thought intellectual brainstorming? For one thing it will slow down the TCP connections as ACKs incur a longer RTT. Then there is the whole question of managing and lowering power consumption as a green initiative, and capacity issues are yet another thing.
~Rahul On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Matthew Petach <[email protected]>wrote: > There's been a whole lot of chatter recently > about whether or not it's sensible to require > balanced peering ratios when selling heavily > unbalanced services to customers. > > There's a very simple solution, it seems. > Just have every website, every streaming > service, every bit of consumable internet > data have built-in reciprocity. > > You want to stream a movie? No problem; > the video player opens up a second data > port back to a server next to the streaming > box; its only purpose is to accept a socket, > and send all bits received on it to /dev/null. > The video player sends back an equivalent > stream of data to what is being received in. > The server receiving the upstream data stream > checks the bitrate coming into it from the player, > and communicates back to the video streaming > box every few minutes to lower the outbound > bitrate going to the player to match what the > inbound bitrate coming from the client is. > That way, traffic volumes stay nicely balanced, > and everyone is happy. For extra credit, and > to deal with multiple layers of NAT in the v4 > world, you could even piggyback on the same > stream, though that would take just a bit more > work. > > Mobile apps could be programmed the same > way; you download a certain amount of data, > an equivalent volume of data is sent back > upstream to balance it out, and preserve > the holy ratio. Even web pages could use > javascript footers to send back upstream an > equivalent amount of data to what was > downloaded. > > Once and for all, we could put an end to > the ceaseless bickering about ratios, as > everyone, everywhere would be forced > into glorious unity, a perfect 1:1 ratio > wherever the eye should look. > > As far as I can tell, this should solve > *everyone's* concerns from all sides, > all in one simple effort. > > Matt > -- ~~~~~~ Regards Rahul
