Joe Maimon wrote:
Tim Lampman wrote:
Realistically this has to do with one main thing, traffic throttling
(Mainly of bittorrent and other p2p applications).
In previous decisions and hearings they discussed at length the
management of networks in regards to spam and viruses.
These have nothing to do with what this ruling is about and they
stated that there is a clear distinction
between managing spam and viruses and management of traffic for
specific applications.
This ruling really doesn't amount to much at this point as bell,
rogers, shaw, cogeco etc will all still throttle whatever they
want, whenever they want without much regard for the rulings of the
CRTC. They ignore many other rulings every day,
why would this one be any different.
The issue that interests me most is the reputed filtering and
throttling performed by these companies for broadband L2 connections
backhauled to ISP's doing the L3 on them, such as with ATM or L2TP.
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.
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