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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:26:14 -0400 "Christopher Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/07, John C. A. Bambenek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I love how the framed it as "data discrimination". Let's just be > > honest... 99% of it was illegal traffic taking up far more than > > their fair share of bandwidth. > > is there really anyway to really know how much of it was > legit/legal/illegal?? Nope. And BitTorrent is trying to be very legit; see, for example, http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/10/08/brightcove-fox-paramount-tech-cx_ag_1009bittorrent.html Besides, legal issues should be dealt with by the legal process. If nothing else, there one has guarantees of due process and the right to contest the charges. > > Also, I'll channel Sean Donelan now: "ISP's... damned if they do, > damned if they don't" It's a funny world out there :) > > (also, how is it that Comcast is getting dinged on this but BT or > other carreirs doing similar 'rate shaping' for p2p traffic are NOT?) > Personally, I see a big difference between rate-shaping and sending RSTs. (I suppose you could view RSTs as allocating 0 bps, but that's not a helpful distinction.) That said, I don't approve of other carriers sending RSTs, either; I simply happened to see the articles on Comcast today. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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