While the intent is good I seriously doubt it'll work.. since it's only a matter of a very short time before some morons liek Comcast, Cogeco or Bell (aka hell) try to manipulate this for their own benefit. All of the above have proven they don;t give a rats *** about their customers after all.. and hence why many of us refuse to deal with them at all.

If it's going to help those who aren't downloading but are experiencing slowdowns then i'm all in. I'm going to download uTorrent 2.0 now.

I tend to side with the analysis of George Ou, which indicates the congestion control doesn't work that well. I can't see why you would tack congestion control onto the Bittorent protocol. If you want to fight bandwidth issues use traffic control to guarantee all protocols get bandwidth ahead of Bittorrent. Set all bandwidth intensive protocols to a low priority. This should be a default configuration on the router/modem for anyone that runs Bittorrent, otherwise when they run Bittorrent they can't browse the web without long delays. ISPs are in the best position to throttle specific traffic but they are only likely to do this if customers complain because they cant access the web and it is due to congestion from too many Bittorrent users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality
I could see where improved bandwidth utilization can benefit a lot of different users. The real problem with bandwidth is the ISPs needing to do the upgrades to handle the increased traffic. Everyday more people are logging onto the internet, spending more time online and doing more. Streaming video will most likely become the next big bandwidth hog. The ISP's will need to upgrade their infrastructures to handle the increased traffic. Getting the greedy ISP's to shell out for the upgrades to fiber optic and other hardware will be the real challenge. When major companies like Comcast choose to throttle rather than upgrade or start suggesting new "pricing plans" based on bandwidth usage, it shows where there priorities really are.
just my humble opinion

ISPs will maybe (and thats a big maybe) stop throtlling only if all bt clients use this technology and that will take some time, even after it is released out in the open by the utorrent developers (if they ever release the specifications).

In my opinion ISPs are going to keep throttling regardless of whether this protocol is used or not and, personally i don't much care for it at all. I don't mind the protocol but i see it as another excuse for ISPs not to upgrade there speeds. It's long overdue and I hate to see them get reasons to prolong it even more.

The downloading of torrent files should be 'capped' at a given speed (no more than 2x dial-up speed) which has no connection with the ISP speed whatsoever. All this downloading has a major effect on everyone's internet browsing and everyone who downloads these torrent files should have to wait a long time for the files to download, so they might think twice and buy instead...

today every kid is growing on internet , p2p, chatting. ISP provider can't just keep increasing the bandwidth. In this the average internet using people get loss. This is really going to be help for such kind of people. I welcome this step.

I don't understand anything from this. I just use BitTorent to download from torrents.
So, our ISP's would see what we were downloading or what?

Someone, explain to me.

I don't think this really fixes any problems. The fix needs to be for ISP to actually provide the speeds they advertise. If the ISP starts getting a heavy load from a fair share of their customers they should be able to provide that bandwidth, but so many of them can not. So they start throttling. The solution needs to be more along the lines of upgrading their hardware until they can offer those speeds consistently.

If it works, it can be interesting, but I am mostly against this "feature" I am sure someone will find a way to disable the feature.

I doubt this will appease ISPs. I imagine they will always find something to complain about when it comes to bit torrents, and since they are the ones with the power, they will most certainly do something to about it, even if it is no longer throttling.

BitTorrent should remain as it is not be changed because of pressure from big media. In fact, filtering by any group will reduce network productivity across the whole of an ISP's network. We need to understand the freedom of data and big media needs to realize their old ways of doing business are flawed. BitTorrent is the most efficient method of downloading large files.

Why cant they? We have the technology...but they unfortunaly have the greed. I'm glad i dont live in the US and have to deal with Schoogelike comcast.

Build better connections. Whats the problem...money? Well maybe if you stop wasting money on comming up with new ways to make the internet experience worse for your customers and isnstead invest in faster and wider connections and improving it. this wouldnt even be an issue for the american consumer. ....and it seems like its mostly an issue for them.

...havnt heard of anyone trying to throttle the speed here..not without geting called out and having to back down..or loosing all the customers. Throttling is a way of trying to sell a product theycant provide on old or weak technology that cant handle the workload.

Its a cheap guys solutions to temporary fix a symthom, and ignoring the real issue.
start fixing the real problem instead of trying to come up with workarounds.
Sometimes its better to leave the superglue and scotch tape alone and start new.

Well this is definately good news considered i have comcast.

I'm really surprised that Comcast hasn't come up with a Bitorrent package when you can pay extra and not have your service throttled. I'm sure they're working on a way to do it to be able to get just a little more cash from their customers while doing nothing to upgrade their aging systems and forcing out competition. I'd like to know how much is spent yearly on advertising vs. how much is spent on actual infrastructure upgrades.

Correct. The ISP must upgrade their infrastructures to handle the traffic. Its not like less people are going to use the internet in the future. Something must be done about all these streaming media sites also. They need to account for their massive traffic increases.

Let me get this straight: If the network jamb up, the new BitTorrent slows down? So now my transfer is even slower? And this helps me how? I've got a better idea: If the network jambs up, how about the ISP increases capacity to meet their contractual obligations? Hmm? What, they can't support EVERYBODY downloading at the advertised rates? Then maybe they shouldn't have advertised those rates.