[187798] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Thank you, Comcast.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Dorr)
Fri Feb 26 11:15:07 2016
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:04:08 -0600
From: Philip Dorr <tagno25@gmail.com>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
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On Feb 26, 2016 8:34 AM, "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
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>
> ISP's should block nothing, to or from the customer, unless they make it
clear *before* selling the service (and include it in the Terms and
Conditions of Service Contract), that they are not selling an Internet
connection but are selling a partially functional Internet connection (or a
limited Internet Service), and specifying exactly what the built-in
deficiencies are.
>
> Deficiencies may include:
> port/protocol blockage toward the customer (destination blocks)
> port/protocol blockage toward the internet (source blocks)
> DNS diddling (filtering of responses, NXDOMAIN redirection/wildcards,
etc)
> Traffic Shaping/Policing/Congestion policies, inbound and outbound
>
> Some ISPs are good at this and provide opt-in/out methods for at least
the first three on the list. Others not so much.
>
Every ISP I have felt with that messes with the DNS, has no valid opt-out
other than using different DNS. The opt-out they use is a HTTP cookie,
which only works for web browsers. It doesn't work for any other program.
