[100262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Oct 20 07:58:18 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710201005210.15766@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:57:11 -0400
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson 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.
It is interesting that this has come up before in a somewhat related
context
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ignoring_the_gr.html
Regards
Marshall
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
