[governance] Of Interest: Congestion Management FAQ from Cox

[Ralf Bendrath]

Ginger Paque schrieb:
> This transparency is a positive step peripheral to the NN debate:

It goes right to the heart, actually. While this transparency is nice, and
their approach to bandwidth management sounds very well-intended, this
announcement also means that Cox will look into the traffic of each
customer to determine which application is using the TCP stack ("deep
packet inspection" is the technical term). You could consider this a
breach of telecommunications privacy. At least it is a big step away from
the classic bit-mover and best-effort internet model.

Good read on this:
The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance
Paul Ohm, University of Colorado Law School
U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-22
University of Illinois Law Review, 2009
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1261344>

Ralf
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