[118401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CRTC rules on Traffic Management Practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Oct 21 14:44:10 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:42:52 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Tim Lampman <tim@broadlinenetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ADF4359.4090003@broadlinenetworks.com>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Tim Lampman wrote:
> Joe Maimon wrote:
>> In that scenario, a broadband user who is a customer of Mom'N'Pop ISP
>> is getting throttled by a third party providing a L2 backhaul.
>>
>> From what you have posted, this would now require prior approval. As I
>> feel strongly that this behavior is quite wrong and should not happen,
>> I am encouraged by these rules.
>>
>> Joe
>>
> It would appear this is how it should be, however the track record of
> Bell heeding the CRTC's rulings has not been good. Last year Bell was
> ordered to offer matching speeds to their wholesale GAS customers to
> that of their retail offerings, they simply never complied. This ruling
> only applies to time sensitive traffic, most of which Bell does not
> currently throttle. While I think most people would agree that its
> completely wrong to throttle the traffic of a third party wholesale
> customer, the reality is that Bell does this every day and will continue
> to do so regardless of what the CRTC tells them.
>
Disappointing, but at least it is not a step in the wrong direction.
