On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:58:24AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > Bittorrent's new udp protocol is an attempt to address the problems > and make bittorrent more palatable to business users and isps because > it does have it's own built-in controls now to make it coexist better > with other forms of traffic that were previously harmed. I don't > think they've done this without thinking about the long-term > consequences. Nor is this an attempt to somehow beat ISP throttling.
So, Richard Bennett posted a retraction to his original article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/richard_bennett_bittorrent_udp/ It's nice to have a few more details. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
