[100261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sat Oct 20 07:54:04 2007
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:53:07 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710201005210.15766@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:08:50 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.html
>
> I cannot access relevant pages on www.comcast.com due to me not being
> in the US (or rather, they require an address first), could anyone
> please paste or other way supply the wording/text they use in their
> fineprint, to allow them contractually to disrupt customer TCP
> session in other way than delaying or dropping the packets (which I
> guess is accepted industry standard).
>
> Sending/spoofing RST on certain customer TCP sessions doesn't qualify
> as normal network behaviour in my mind, so would be interesting to
> hear how they word it legally.
>
See http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9800629-38.html for some relevant
excerpts.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
