P2P should be mandatory!
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Peering is an agreement between two or more ISP’s to share traffic between each other to prevent it from using the internet for its transit.
Chris Gilbey, my business partner, lives 120 kilometers down the road from me, so you’d think when he and I send each other an email, it’d travel a mere hundred and twenty kilometers.
Well, that’s what most people think.
However —-
Unfortunately, I use Unwired and Chris Uses Telstra, two different ISP’s with different commercial objectives and little in common except they both have customers.
When Chris sends me an email, it travels all the way to Philadelphia in the US, which is where my Outlook Express has to retrieve it from. However, if Unwired and Telstra peered —-
Non-Peering Mail Retrieval – Peering Mail Retrieval
—- everyone in Australia would benefit from the fact my email doesn’t have to go to halfway round the world, and back.
If all ISPs peered with all ISPs, everyone in the world would save bandwidth. And the Internet would be faster for important things like Youtube or online Tetris.
Because that’s P2P is — sending data between users without blocking up the international links.
Imagine how slow the internet would be if ten million Australians used Unwired and the other ten million used Telstra to send emails to each other? There’d be no room to download movies, no room to download songs and absolutely no way to play online Tetris.
Conversely, consider the possibilities if everyone ignored their ISP’s anti-competitive policies and the content industries’ mis-information campaign. and everyone peered with everyone else.
Think of the savings in greenhouse gases of not having to send an email around the world (around 0.42 grams of carbon) multiplied by one email per day and multiplied by 1.8 billion internet users.
That equal over eight thousand tons of carbon emissions per day.
P2P should be passed into legislation as mandatory.
Tom Koltai - p2pnet
[Koltai is an economist in Sydney Australia. He's says he's been online for 26 years, has run several ISPs and, "lobbied governments in four countries to prevent Internet restrictive usage legislation from being enacted". He says he's a strong believer in P2P, "as being a technological requirement to fully exploit the convergence of telephony with computers and remove the last barriers to human communication and interaction".]
March, 2009
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March 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am
How exactly is there an energy savings resulting from this? While I can appreciate how good the idea is, wouldn’t the infrastructure these letters would have been sent though be left operating whether the emails start being peered or not? Or am I completely missing the point?
March 17th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
wouldn’t all the ping hops sharing copyrighted material be suspect to litigation as well? I think the asshats over at the MAFIAA are missing out on an entire cadre of potential litigants. Imagine, if you will, if I share a file with a buddy in Australia, it has to hop thru 12 destinations prior to receipt. I think the next genius move by the cartels is to sue not just me and my buddy in Australia, but all trace route hops between as well. They could get $3000usd in extortion settlements for all 12 hops.
NOT !
great article Tom…
stw
March 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
@Sukasa, google made a carbon foot print report (includes CPU usage, electron traveling time and so forth).
So in a way, yes, there is a small foot-print to be saved. Multiply that by a billion and its significant.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
beacuase you end up geting what your after faster and htus need ot be “online less= using less power”
March 17th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
“P2P should be passed into legislation as mandatory.”
Jack Valenti just turned in his grave…
March 17th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
What a rediculous concept. How many ISP’s are there in the world? 10,000? Then that would mean 10,000 x 9,999 peering arrangements. Or about 100 million individual links. Assuming this was even possible, the power-consumption from all the routers, switches, air-conditioners, trench digger, etc would swap the miniscule savings from routing an email from one place to another.
This is like saying every train station in the world should be one stop away from every other train station.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:38 am
unWired throttles. lol