http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/costa/papers/s... might be an interesting alternative/complement.
Changing the game with μTP
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Re: Changing the game with μTP
#12What's unsaid here is that uTP is an undocumented protocol that isn't available to other BitTorrent implementations like Azureus/Vuze, potentially making them second-class citizens.
That should be a nonissue as long as the protocol is backwards compatible.
...The way the client talks to other clients has had to be completely re-built. As a side effect, because the new protocol so different, it is practically invisible to some of the nasty traffic shaping techniques that some ISPs have been using.
They're not even going to pretend other client will be able to support it in a timely fashion. Backwards compatibility is out the window if they really did implement everything documented in the article.
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#13What's unsaid here is that uTP is an undocumented protocol that isn't available to other BitTorrent implementations like Azureus/Vuze, potentially making them second-class citizens.
Good news, though: the code is open source.
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#14What's unsaid here is that uTP is an undocumented protocol that isn't available to other BitTorrent implementations like Azureus/Vuze, potentially making them second-class citizens.
Good news, though: the code is open source.
I don't think so.
"source code for BitTorrent 6.0 ... will not be released"
http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_Addresses_Closed_S...
I wouldn't expect 7.0 to be any different.
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#15What's unsaid here is that uTP is an undocumented protocol that isn't available to other BitTorrent implementations like Azureus/Vuze, potentially making them second-class citizens.
Don't forget: BitTorrent is a business that Bram Cohen built. Their goal is to sell their product, in this case, uses of BitTorrent the protocol to companies. They can hardly do this if BitTorrent is being blocked everywhere.
If they have special BitTorrent client to BitTorrent client information, it could be for use in their custom software that companies would use within their own product, not necessarily for public downloading usage (ex: WoW's software updates using BitTorrent).
I don't know if this is actually the case. But why couldn't it be a possibility?
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good news, though: the code is open source.
I don't think so. "source code for BitTorrent 6.0 ... will not be released" http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_Addresses_Closed_S... I wouldn't expect 7.0 to be any different.
What? NOOOO!
Damn it, I liked having the official BitTorrent be open source. It was nice. Now what are we going to do?
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#17This new protocol uses packet latency based throttling instead of the packet loss based throttling of TCP. I don't think the article documents any details. Maybe I missed a link.
Details of the protocol are here:
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0029.html
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think so. "source code for BitTorrent 6.0 ... will not be released" http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_Addresses_Closed_S... I wouldn't expect 7.0 to be any different.
What? NOOOO! Damn it, I liked having the official BitTorrent be open source. It was nice. Now what are we going to do?
Probably nothing as it's been closed-source for years now.
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#19Isn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol better than uTP?
Re: Changing the game with μTP
#20http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/costa/papers/s... might be an interesting alternative/complement.
OTOH, http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2009/papers/hotnets20... suggests that localization doesn't help that much.