Re: DPI or Flow Management

[Francois Menard <francois () menards ca>]

The issue is use of dpi to eliminate congestion stemming from p2p's  
natural unfairness behind the unbundling interface.

F.

Le 09-03-01 à 21:14, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> a écrit :

> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > In short, the entire DPI debate is starting to go on similar lines,
> > and flogging similar horses, as the gun control debate
> > Yes, dpi has great, useful applications (ddos mitigation and other
> > security, for example).  And it has bad / harmful applications
> > (dictatorships doing dpi to catch political dissent).
> > That says a lot more about inappropriate / appropriate use of dpi
> > rather than dpi itself.
> > Nothing at all in DPI that makes it wrong, deeply evil etc.
>
> Which is why the political debates over it bother me. Declaring dpi  
> as evil and regulating it could very well limit security of the  
> future; not to mention the fact that DPI tends to be extremely vague  
> in definition dependent upon its implementation.
>
> Jack