Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 07 August 2006
CacheLogic and BitTorrent introduce an open-source Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP) that allows ISP's to cache and seed Bittorrent traffic. Currently, Bittorrent traffic is suffering from bandwidth throttling ISP's that claim that Bittorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes. This motivated the developers of the most popular Bittorrent clients implement protocol encryption to protect bittorrent users from being slowed down by their ISP's. However, Bram Cohen, the founder of Bittorrent doubted that encryption was the solution, and found (together with CacheLogic) a more ISP friendly alternative.
The "traffic problem" has been created by the ISPs, not by Bittorrent (or any other P2P application). They offer cheap flatrates and shouldn't complain if their customers make use of it.