[governance] Of Interest: Congestion Management FAQ from Cox

[Andrea Glorioso]

On 1/28/09, Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> 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).


Well, to be fair, one can understand which application a particular
packet "belongs to" simply by checking the TCP header (in particular,
the destination ports which are usually fixed).

I would have some problems defining "ipso facto" this a "deep packet
inspection" , as this would imply that many useful applications on
the Internet (including,  for example, transparent proxying, whether
for the purpose of caching or not) become all at once "problematic".

Best,

Andrea
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