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Jul 11 2008   9:10PM GMT

Comcast to face net neutrality sanctions



Posted by: Tom Nolle
net neutrality, Comcast, FCC

Reports out of Washington D.C., suggest that the FCC’s Martin will recommend a sanction against Comcast for violating its net neutrality principles, but it is not clear (since those principles were not an “order” in a legal sense) whether the decision will have any teeth. Comcast, furthermore, has already changed the way it manages traffic, focusing on users and not applications. The move by the FCC is thus popular with consumer advocates and meaningless, but it may show that the FCC will come down harder on deep packet inspection (DPI)  for gleaning behavioral data from ISP streams.

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Feb 26 2008   1:23PM GMT

FCC chairman advocates spelling out P2P policies



Posted by: Tom Nolle
Comcast, FCC, Peer2Peer

Comcast and its opponents faced off at an FCC hearing, but little of substance was brought into the open. The positions remain largely as filed in the various briefs; Comcast says that network management is essential for overall service quality and net neutralists say that any constraints will be the end of the Internet. Chairman Martin’s comment about the fact that such things should be done with open policies and transparency seem to us to be the signal that the FCC will mandate that these traffic management practices be spelled out in the user agreements. We do not expect any substantive policy announced favoring net neutrality despite the tone of some post-meeting commentary.

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