Doesn't mention NAT penetration, interestingly.

jul wrote:
> http://shlang.com/talks/20080528-BitTorrent-position-IETF-P2P.pdf
> 
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Serguei Osokine wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, December 01, 2008 travis kalanick wrote:
>>> If uTorrent's UDP implementation results in a more aggressive
>>> TCP, there is certainly the possibility that uTorrent could
>>> create massive FAIL on the Internets.
>>>
>>> Anyone who's created/tuned a distributed-UDP-based-TCP-like
>>> protocol (e.g. David Barrett, Matthew Kaufman, Alex Pankrotov)
>>> knows the delicate nature of how distributed-TCP-in-UDP works,
>>> and how it can go very haywire with just a couple of well-
>>> intentioned tweaks.
>>
>> Most certainly; but my question was, is there any evidence of this
>> protocol "going very haywire", or the article just paints the worst
>> possible scenario, sort of like telling that the asteroid can destroy
>> all life on Earth? I mean, it sure can - but where's the asteroid?
>>
>> Best wishes -
>> S.Osokine.
>> 1 Dec 2008.
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of travis kalanick
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:47 PM
>> To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks
>> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Did uTorrent add NAT traversal?
>>
>>
>> If uTorrent's UDP implementation results in a more aggressive TCP, 
>> there is certainly the possibility that uTorrent could create massive 
>> FAIL on the Internets.
>>
>> Anyone who's created/tuned a distributed-UDP-based-TCP-like protocol 
>> (e.g. David Barrett, Matthew Kaufman, Alex Pankrotov) knows the 
>> delicate nature of how distributed-TCP-in-UDP works, and how it can go 
>> very haywire with just a couple of well-intentioned tweaks.
>>
>> uTorrent is so widely distributed and so massively utilized for 
>> download activity, that if this update goes out in the defacto 
>> uTorrent client (new installs and auto-updates and the like), we 
>> should hope that there is a slow steady deployment to make sure there 
>> aren't serious problems with "crowding out" in the protocol.  
>>
>> If there is a massive auto-update, and a massive FAIL that follows, we 
>> should all expect our uTorrent apps to be disabled by ISP, 
>> auto-downgraded by Bittorrent Inc., etc. until a TCP friendly protocol 
>> is deployed.
>>
>> Travis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Serguei Osokine 
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Monday, December 01, 2008 David Barrett wrote:
>> > Saw uTorrent switched to UDP:
>> >
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/
>>
>>
>> Is it just me, or this article is really unnecessarily alarmist?
>> Richard Bennett describes the situation as if there is no congestion
>> control in the UDP file transfer protocol used by uTorrent, which
>> I find a bit hard to believe.
>>
>> Is this really the case? I cannot imagine how the data transfer
>> protocol without any congestion control can possibly exist - the
>> only issue seems to be how aggressive would it be in comparison
>> with TCP, not whether it would melt down the Internet or not. But
>> he sounds like the sky will be falling any moment now; is this
>> position substantiated by any objective evidence?
>>
>> Best wishes -
>> S.Osokine.
>> 1 Dec 2008.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barrett
>>
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:10 PM
>> To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks
>> Subject: [p2p-hackers] Did uTorrent add NAT traversal?
>>
>>
>> Saw uTorrent switched to UDP:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/
>>
>> Did they also add simultaneous connect NAT traversal?  That'd require a
>> tracker change, I assume.  (Though they could probably do it through the
>> DHT.)
>>
>> -david
>>
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