Category Archives: Politics
Draft: Public Comments for CRTC PN 2008-19
( Source ) I’m in the process of pulling together some privacy-related thoughts surrounding Canadian ISPs’ use of DPI equipment. I’ve posted an early draft of the document, and invite comments and thoughts. If you want to prepare your own comments, you’ve still got until February 23rd. Continue reading
Update: Associating Canadian ISPs with Anonymized Data Traffic Submissions
Responses to question 1 (b) show that the percentage of HTTP/Streaming traffic has increased, two companies report that the percentage of P2P traffic has increased and two report it has decreased slightly, UDP traffic has increased slightly, and the “Other” category now accounts for a smaller percentage of total traffic than in the first months measured. … For the top 5% of users, HTTP/Streaming has remained relatively constant, P2P use decreased for only one company, UDP traffic is up, and “Other” traffic has decreased for two of three companies. For the top 10% of users, HTTP/Streaming traffic makes up a higher percentage of total traffic, in all but one case P2P traffic represents a larger percentage of total traffic, UDP is up, and “Other” is down for two of three companies. Continue reading
Update: CRTC PN 2008-19 ISP Filing Summary Document
( Source ) I’ve updated my initial ISP Filing Summary document with the information that ISPs provided on February 9, 2008 per the CRTC’s February 4, 2009 request. … The updates to not include Videotron’s response to 1 (c) . I would maintain that the most interesting parts of was was released have been summarized in a post from two days ago, which was entitled ” Update: CRTC PN 2008-19 Filings “. Tomorrow, I should be posting a document that correlates data the CRTC aggregated and anonymized with the ISPs who were required to release anonymized data. Continue reading
Update: CRTC PN 2008-19 Filings
( Source ) I’ve only just now had a chance to start to summarize my thoughts on documents related to CRTC Public Notice (PN) 2008-19; Review of the Internet traffic management practices of Internet service providers that have been filed since January 26th, 2009. Below are points of interest that come up – my hope is in the next few days to integrate and update the initial summary document that I prepared for ISP filings, so that a more complete picture of what has been filed exists. … February 4, 2009 CRTC Response In light of the requests for comments by interested parties, and the responses by ISPs on January 26, 2009, the CRTC laid out what information ISPs would have to provide to subsequently be put on the public record . Continue reading
