[ NNSquad ] Re: NASA and BitTorrent

["Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl@gih.com>]

I've been asked to summarise a little for those people that are not IEEE 
members.
I'll be brief since the scope of the papers is marginally outside the scope 
of NNSQUAD, although they illustrate the fact that P2P is not just a 
technology used for illicit purposes.

The issues contains 6 papers specifically targeted towards Peer-to-Peer 
Multimedia Streaming.

* Will IPTV ride the peer-to-peer stream?
Authors: all from UCLA, including Leonard Kleinrock - listed by the LA times 
in 1999 as amongst the "50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century"

* Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming on the Internet: Issues, Existing 
Approaches, and Challenges
Authors from: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology & Tsinghua 
University, China
This paper reviews many state of the art P2P technologies, some of which are 
starting to be implemented o a commercial basis

* Deploying P2P Networks for Large-Scale Live Video-Streaming Service
Authors from Tsinghua University, China

* Enabling adaptive Video Streaming in P2P Systems
Authors from: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

* Resilience in Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming
Authors from KTH Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

* Peer-to-Peer Streaming for Networked Consumer Electronics
Authors from Panasonic Princeton Laboratory, USA
This paper is particularly interesting in that it really looks at groundwork 
for another generation of Internet applications, where a whole range of new 
applications can be delivered to users of consumer electronics

I do not have the time to write more of a summary than this. Suffice to say 
that imposing filtering of traffic on the Internet will work directly 
against some of these new developments. It will hinder new uses of the Net. 
Corporations (TelCos) that decide to succumb to blocking out a whole range 
of traffic types so as to alleviate overload in the short term, are simply 
hindering themselves from being able to host new applications. They are 
effectively freezing the technological development of their network to a 
level that they can manage. As ever, market forces will apply - but could it 
be that in the longer term, strategic pressure will make them reverse their 
decisions? Will countries introducing legislation abandoning the concept of 
Net Neutrality be strategically impaired commercially?
Last, but not least, will widespread implementation of IPv6 change all of 
that by re-designing the field of play?

O.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl@gih.com>
To: "Lauren Weinstein" <lauren@vortex.com>; <nnsquad@nnsquad.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: NASA and BitTorrent


> For those who are a little more technically minded, I recommend reading 
> published papers in the June 2007 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine, 
> Issue 45.6. It is not particularly amusing, but shows a snapshot of some 
> of the research currently done and possible opportunities in the area of 
> P2P.
> Fact: P2P is here to stay.
>
> O.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lauren Weinstein" <lauren@vortex.com>
> To: <nnsquad@nnsquad.org>
> Cc: <lauren@vortex.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:02 AM
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] NASA and BitTorrent
>
>
> > Here's some amusing reading for those in the audience who believe
> > that P2P in general, and BitTorrent in particular, are only used for
> > illicit purposes by music and film pirates:
> >
> > http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/faq.php?e=4
> >
> > --Lauren--
> > NNSquad Moderator