Yes, it'd be a minor suggestion at best. The biggest benefit would be to the internet as whole, motivating middle box makers into not breaking it and so on.
The low-latency idea seems interesting, I suspect WebTorrent people would appreciate it. But live streams over P2P sound too fancy for now.
> but bittorrent-over-TLS would work equally well (not standardized, but libtorrent supports it).
Which is where the suggestion to use QUIC would have the biggest effect and getting the swarms more encrypted.
> Bulk transfers à la bittorrent benefit only marginally if you have a modern TCP stack and use it properly.
Unfortunately very little software actually goes into the effort at figuring each such detail out and the end result, defaults are often rather poor.
I guess this more of a questions of "what are the defaults" not "what's possible."
Yes, it'd be a minor suggestion at best. The biggest benefit would be to the internet as whole, motivating middle box makers into not breaking it and so on.
The low-latency idea seems interesting, I suspect WebTorrent people would appreciate it. But live streams over P2P sound too fancy for now.
> but bittorrent-over-TLS would work equally well (not standardized, but libtorrent supports it).
Which is where the suggestion to use QUIC would have the biggest effect and getting the swarms more encrypted.
> Bulk transfers à la bittorrent benefit only marginally if you have a modern TCP stack and use it properly.
Unfortunately very little software actually goes into the effort at figuring each such detail out and the end result, defaults are often rather poor.
I guess this more of a questions of "what are the defaults" not "what's possible."