If the New York City Council can approve this plan, why can’t we have the same thing on our broadband networks?
Updated, 9:24 p.m. | Shortly before 7:30 p.m., the New York City Council approved a measure urging state lawmakers to vote in favor of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal. The vote was [...]
Check my latest piece in The Register on the Comcast/BitTorrent detente.
Analysis So Comcast will stop shaping peer-to-peer seeding sessions with spoofed TCP RST commands. I caught up with the cable giant’s CTO Tony Werner on Thursday for more details.
The move should delight the company’s critics. These innocent control packets have been compared to identity theft, [...]
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Comcast’s CTO Tony Werner was kind enough to give me a few minutes today on the changes afoot in the cable giant’s Internet access network, and I like what I learned. I’ll do a longer post on this later with some diagrams, but for now I’d like to sketch out the high points. This is [...]
You may have noticed that BitTorrent and Comcast have agreed to work together to improve co-existence. The Wall St. Journal is reporting the significant detail:
Rather than slow traffic by certain types of applications — such as file-sharing software or companies like BitTorrent — Comcast will slow traffic for those users who consume the most bandwidth, [...]
Slashdot picked up George Ou’s latest piece on the problems with TCP and Peer-to-Peer congestion that I’ve been writing about lo these many months, attracting one interesting comment in a sea of chaff:
As the one who devised much of this congestion control strategy (see my RFC 896 and RFC 970, years before Van Jacobson), I [...]
Some interesting reading for you:
George Ou tells the story of the unfairness of TCP and offers some suggestions.
Adam Thierer takes on Jonathon Zittrain’s paen to programmability The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It.
And finally, Harold Feld explains the 700 MHz auction and what it does and doesn’t mean. Harold is a communist, [...]
The great Obama speech on race in America impressed a lot of people, but they were already Obama supporters. It left me cold, and more than a little offended. To compare his grandmother’s probably rational fear of black men on the street with the bitter public rhetoric of the bombastic Jeremiah Wright shows a distinct [...]
Unsatisfied with the outcome of the FCC hearing on Comcast held in the maw of the Berkman Center, Kevin Martin turns to Larry Lessig for help: FCC Announces Stanford Hearing.
When you’re being investigated by Congress, anything to keep the eyes off the ball is helpful.
Seriously, this is happening is because the Commission lost the [...]
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