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Re: Complain about Comcast=Have your Reputation Scrutinized
said by funchords  :My reply to the attack -- I think your reply was extremely professional, to the point, and exacting.
The part at the end about the blatant mudslinging going on from Comcast's side is very well done.
I find it ironic that they see fit to make claims that you don't understand the network, when it is the blatant level of secrecy they approach these kinds of supposed "end-user-transparent" network changes which prevents you from knowing about it in the first place.
Honestly, all this stuff is making me wonder whether ISPs shouldn't be required by the FCC to deploy, maintain, and update some basic standardized network topology map for their customers. This way, there's no guessing about if/where/to-what the NebuAD boxes are connected to, and where Sandvine is running from. Some sort of transparency may well benefit the consumer, as well as the FCC in dealing with these kinds of issues.
The problem with the whole thing is that, for some reason, the "last mile" has decided it can arbitrarily violate the most sacrosanct of TCP/IP routing rules; only devices at the "edge" of the network actually change or modify data. The stipulation is that everything in-between doesn't do SPI, doesn't deliver user-tailored ADs, doesn't track browsing metrics. All that this news does is tell me that the edge to edge stipulation of network routing is basically dead. If ISPs can do it, what's stopping Level3? What's stopping all the hops between you and me from inserting their two cents, sending reset packets, or throttling?
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