Category Archives: P2P
Deep Packet Inspection and Consumer Transparency
Deep packet inspection and Quality of Service infrastructure regularly mediates Canadians’ digital communications. Given the importance of our digital systems I think that ISPs should remain compliant with technical and regulatory transparency requirements, but also ensure that their policies are also transparent and understandable to end-users. Continue reading
Review of Telecommunications Policy in Transition
It might be hard to justify the cost of a decade-old communications policy text, but this collection has aged quite well. If network neutrality, peering, copyright, or comparative deployment policies are in your line of interest then this is a wonderful book to add to your collection! Continue reading
Rogers, Network Failures, and Third-Party Oversight
Rogers Communications has a severely misconfigured network made possible by the control and surveillance equipment they have embedded in their network. What are the implications of prolonged accidental misconfigurations and how might an independent oversight board mitigate such accidents in the future? Continue reading
Ole, Intellectual Property, and Taxing Canadian ISPs
se companies. At best we might feel pity as we watch them wallow in their crisis. At worst, we fear what they might crush as they roll around on the ground like starving dinosaurs and demolish other elements of civil society in their throes of panic and fear aimed at extinguishing the generativity that endangers their ontological security. They’ve already made a real mess of copyright and cultural transmission possibilities; let’s hope they don’t damage the conditions of democratic communication itself as well. Continue reading
