[governance] Re: US Ambassador Terry Kramer on WCIT

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Yes.. and he is actually right. 

Network security, as in protecting a network and its users from a variety of online threats and malware, makes extensive use of dpi.

So please let us not blame a useful and versatile technology for the way some others use it, or want to use it.

--srs (iPad)

On 07-Dec-2012, at 2:54, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did I mention that he was asked about his thoughts on "Deep Packet Inspection"?
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> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> AMBASSADOR KRAMER: Yeah. So first of all, I have not seen the specific reference that you’re mentioning. Let me just talk for a second about deep packet inspections.
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>> So, deep packet inspection has a good and a bad connotation. The original connotation of deep packet inspection was for operators to be able to look at their networks and say, “Are they performing well?” So in the mobile sector, it’s do you have blocked calls and dropped calls, et cetera. What’s happened, though, is some companies have used deep packet inspection technologies to not look at aggregate customer information, traffic information, et cetera, but to look at individual customer information. So looking at individuals and what sites they’re on and how much capacity they’re using, et cetera, as you can imagine, we’re very much opposed to that because we feel that’s a violation of people’s privacy and gets into, obviously, censorship, et cetera.
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>> So again, deep packet inspection can get used in good and bad contexts. I’d have to see the specific reference, but anything that would go past aggregated customer information would be problematic.
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