FCC Order on Comcast - a good job

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: August 20, 2008 12:09:08 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: FCC Order on Comcast - a good job

Dave - I just posted this on my blog, regarding the FCC opinion and  
order about Comcast RST injection. Your readers might be interested.

-David P. Reed
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Permalink: http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?p=12

FCC Order on Comcast - a good job <http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?p=12>

The FCC today issued its formal opinion and order in regard to  
Comcast’s degrading of P2P and other traffic using DPI and RST  
injection <http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/Comments%20on%20FCC%20order%20FCC-08-183A1 
>. Of course, I’ve been very interested in this, especially since I  
was asked by the Commission to testify as a witness at the en banc  
hearing at Harvard Law School in February.

After reading the order this morning, I felt like commending the FCC -  
so I filed a formal comment with the FCC, and I posted it on my site <http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=10 
> as well. The decision is a good decision for the Internet. In short  
here’s why:

The decision shows that the agency understands the importance of the  
technological principles of the Internet’s design.

The Internet is a /world-wide system that does not belong to any one  
operator/, whether providing access lines or backbone transport.

The design of the Internet Protocols specifies clear limits on what  
operators can and cannot do to Internet Protocol datagrams when those  
operators are acting as part of the Internet.

Not obeying those limits poses a serious risk to the continued success  
of the world-wide Internet. Happily, the FCC recognized and exposed  
Comcast’s transgressions of those limits.

Though Internet design is not a law, the Commission’s order respects  
the importance of that design, and rejects Comcast’s misbehavior and  
deception in applying technologies that go against the principles of  
that design.






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