[governance] UK imposes technical measures against P2P

[JFC Morfin]

At 11:42 08/10/2009, Roland Perry wrote:
>In message <965A47B5-44F0-4CF2-8769-B1F34E98A561 at psg.com>, at 
>08:00:46 on Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com> writes
>>Since the UK telecoms has long been suspected of doing the same to 
>>Skype traffic,
>
>They have? As a UK resident that comes as news to me.
>
>>it would hardly surprising to find that they have the  equipment in 
>>place already.
>
>Currently, several ISPs have "traffic shaping" that is 
>bandwidth-driven rather than content-driven. As a commercial 
>decision, you can buy an access account which has a daily bandwidth 
>cap, and p2p is one of the obvious things which might trigger such a thing.
>--
>Roland Perry

A pay per use approach is certainly a good way to push for 
communication rationalisation and related R&D. The IETF strives to 
make the Internet work better, this does not prevent us to work on 
using it better.
jfc



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