[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Phillip Grasso]

Its their network and cost dynamic they should manage how they see fit; so
long as they aren't blocking or going against net neutrality.

The wider concern is how does this impact the rest of the industry; are
they Cough 'signalling' cough..... (hmm e.g. one bank announces their
interest rates increase; surprise  the others do exactly the same [ well
not any more] ).  The concern is that we go back to dark ages of blocking
potential innovations / opportunities for our local industry. Limiting its
ability to flourish by creating possible large 'constraints' on the next
generation products / services. NBN coming down the line, I'd hope that
'could' pave the way for 'lan' style speeds to homes and allowing the
Australian industry to be incubators of the next Google's/Facebooks of the
world.




On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:

> Yes you can be skypes ports won't be blocked, it will be the standard P2P
> ports like 6969 and so on.
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Julian DeMarchi <
>> julian at jdcomputers.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/05/2013 09:02 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>>> > And not to mention P2P torrent traffic is only about 10% of illegal
>>> > traffic, compared to the 30%+ of file locker and 60%+ of usenet.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
>>>
>>> runs over p2p...
>>>
>>
>> Parts of that page are very much out of date.  Although Skype is still
>> technically peer-to-peer based, the "peers" (supernodes) that previously
>> could be any other Skype users system, are now only Microsoft systems in
>> Microsoft datacenters. So in essence, it's more of a client-server
>> architecture than P2P (even though it still does use P2P-style concepts to
>> find those servers)
>>
>> Even so, it's a moot point - Telstra aren't talking about throttling
>> "P2P", they are talking about throttling specific P2P protocols - and
>> dollars-to-donuts says Skype would not be one of those they are considering.
>>
>>   Scott
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