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Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:23:17 -0600



On 11/30/2010 9:06 AM, William Warren wrote:
This whole mess concerns me about the future of the internet. If the
traffic can't get to the clients by routing around a depeering..is the
internet really working as designed? I don't think so. Peering has
become the gateway to the ultimate in network control...while it's the
provider's prerogative who access their network..peering has become a
club for access and has become the instrument of removing the basic
design wins of the internet.

For a home user, it means knowledge and ability to setup a tunnel to somewhere else to receive the traffic. For netflix, you could setup a v6 tunnel and stream it via ipv6.netflix.com.


Jack


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