Tag 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
Thoughts on COUNTER: Counterfeiting and Piracy Research Conference
Generally the research presented was well-rooted in (what appear to be) rigorous methodological techniques, and perhaps this research might be adopted and leveraged by policymakers in their ongoing engagements with copyright, content producers, and the public. My expectations, however, are less positive: I fear that the work of the COUNTER research project will remain sheltered in academia, sequestered from the public, and consequently ineffective in reshaping the copyright debacle in but the most limited of fashions. Hopefully this is a case where academia can successfully puncture the academic/public divide and breech the public policy debate, but I’m not holding my breath. Continue reading
Why Mash-up Matters
Draft of the first part of a paper entitled, “Mash-up Meets Deep Packet Inspection: Culture, solutions, and the demand for transparency” Continue reading
