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Date: January 28, 2009 8:45:29 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: !!Anonymize!!: Cox to Trial New Congestion Management System
PLEASE ANONYMIZE!!!!
See http://www.cox.com/policy/congestionmanagement/
The concerns I see with this are that this would have to use DPI, very likely installed in-line, in order to function. Former FCC Chairman Martin referred to this as opening customer’s mail to look at what sort of letter is inside. In addition to that, it is hard to imagine that ISPs would want to be in the middle of making decisions for users about relative priorities of different applications. One user may really want VoIP treated best, while for another it is P2P or gaming. These choices may be better left to users themselves to sort out.
See http://www.cox.com/policy/congestionmanagement/
The concerns I see with this are that this would have to use DPI, very likely installed in-line, in order to function. Former FCC Chairman Martin referred to this as opening customer’s mail to look at what sort of letter is inside. In addition to that, it is hard to imagine that ISPs would want to be in the middle of making decisions for users about relative priorities of different applications. One user may really want VoIP treated best, while for another it is P2P or gaming. These choices may be better left to users themselves to sort out.