[IP] Re: P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all 'Net traffic

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dennis Allison <allison@shasta.stanford.edu>
Date: September 5, 2007 6:01:01 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all  
'Net traffic


Dave,

For IP if you wish.

There is no information in the cited arstechnia post that describes in
detail the measurements taken, the methodology, or anything else to move
this from the realm of opinion to hard data.  While I have not seen  
it, I
doubt if the forthcoming paper will do much better.  In the posting  
and on
the ipoque website, the paper is called a "survey" which suggests  
that the
presentation is a collection of opinions, probably from a self-selected
group, rather than hard facts.  Ipoque sells traffic management systems
and is unlikely to be an impartial observer.  Until such time as  
there is
hard, repeatable data demonstrating the correctness of the statement "
P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all 'Net traffic",  
perhaps we
should avoid publicizing unverified assertions.


Dennis Allison
Stanford


On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, David Farber wrote:

> From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 04:36
> To: ip@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: [IP] P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all 'Net
> traffic
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: September 4, 2007 10:22:08 AM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of
> all 'Net traffic
>
> P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all 'Net traffic
> By Eric Bangeman | Published: September 03, 2007 - 09:00PM CT
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070903-p2p-responsible-for-as-
> much-as-90-percent-of-all-net-traffic.html>
>
> P2P traffic is dominating the Internet these days, according to a new
> survey from ipoque, a German traffic management and analysis firm.
> ipoque's "preliminary results" show that P2P applications account
> from anywhere between 50 percent and 90 percent of all Internet
> traffic. The final survey results are not yet available and will
> presented at the Emerging Technology Conference at MIT later this  
> month.



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