I thought that Internet 2 was full of file sharing protocols (maybe it was botnets).
Certainly it could make a change from the 2004 nznog where Kewin Stoeckigt complained about getting charged $0.10 - $0.40 per Megabyte.
In a couple of years time people will be asking their University friends to download media for them, just like they did back in the 1990s.
The current policy for I2-style networks is that traffic between partners is fine. So you can do your P2P from one university to the other just fine. This doesn't imply peering with commodity Internet providers, nor does it imply international peering - although Aarnet in Australia does connect to the US I2. And the charging models for any intl peering are often completely different to national. I2 won't give us free or cheap gigabit access at home. It will give universities, other research organisations and similarly minded businesses a high speed collaborative platform. That's what it's there for. -- Daniel Lawson WAND Group, Computer Science Department University of Waikato email: daniel(a)wand.net.nz phone: +64 7 838 4136