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[ NNSquad ] Re: Traffic shaping law proposed in US
Traffic shaping law proposed in US 17/03/2008 - by CommsDay
At least one influential US lawmaker has proposed adding a traffic shaping ban to current antitrust law, signaling Congress could act in response to the Comcast P2P scandal no matter how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceeds. The House Judiciary Committee chairman, John Conyers, says that reports to the effect that Comcast secretly slowed â and in some cases killed â BitTorrent traffic demonstrate âthe open architecture of the Internet is under siege. The problem is that many of the innovations we've enjoyed on the Internet would have never occurred under this proposed regime.â
Cont.: http://tinyurl.com/yvqz6t
The last paragraph of the story was particularly interesting:
However, theis[sic] claim was called into question late last week by Alcatel-Lucent. The company said its new 9900 Wireless Network Guardian indicated enterprise applications such as IP-VPN and mobile email were far larger drains on network resources than direct P2P downloads.
I should note, however, that this assertion is as bare of actual numbers as the conflicting claims by Comcast and other ISPs.