Re: [p2pi] [tsv-area] TANA proposed charter

[Salman Abdul Baset <[e-mail]>]

>> Yet why would a bulk-data content provider want to USE it?
>
> This is a great question and it deserves a more detailed answer than this, 
> but let me try, briefly, to provide one reason to use it:
>
> Because the user wants to use the Internet while P2P app is doing whatever it 
> is doing.  Or the user will uninstall the app.

To add:

Some traffic is more important than others. A rough ordering is:
VoIP > interactive > video-streaming > file-transfer > p2p

The general recommendation by VoIP providers is to manually shutdown the 
p2p application(s) so as not to affect the calls. This manual shutdown is 
quite annoying for a user.

-s


> The content provider serves at the leisure of the user.  The user is willing 
> to share uplink capacity as long as the sharing is largely invisible.  The 
> user will be upset by uploads that affect the user's ability to use the 
> network for interactive applications and web browsing.
>
> (There are other scenarios, particularly with shared congestion and traffic 
> management, that generally push the content provider to be nicer, so the 
> above is just one example.)
>
> -- Stas
>
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