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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
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4 edits | I'm thinking good thoughts... While it's been a miserable fight, a ton of good has come out of this investigation, and I'm hoping that's a trend that continues.
•Comcast took a huge positive step from ignoring and sometimes abusing Internet Standards to openly and actively supporting them. Comcast donated $25,000 to the ISOC/IETF (the Internet Standards and governance bodies and hosted two major events for them and Comcast employees are now taking an active role in the IETF standards-making process.
•Comcast disclosed its invisible cap, customers can now better understand what they're buying.
•Comcast tripled its upload modem speeds and (based on QAM64 connections being seen more frequently lately) has been recently upgrading the network.
•Comcast opened a new page on its TOS/Legal pages describing its network management in a bit more detail. (With more detail coming, hopefully.)
•Even though it disagrees with the process, Comcast has committed to quit abusing the RST flag and will be disclosing what it did and its future plans to its customers and the FCC rather than make an example of them.
•And finally, Comcast and the Comcast case has served as an example to other ISPs about what's appropriate and not appropriate for an ISP to do.
So I'm really hopeful that these positive things continue.
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funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | said by AstroBoy:I still see the RST packets! Yeah, that's a bummer. The FCC effective gave Comcast permission to continue to abuse it until the end of the year.
It's a funny fact about this case -- Comcast questions the FCC's authority to make it stop injecting RSTs -- and I question the FCC's authority to allow it to continue injecting RSTs until the end of the year.
But, oh well. 
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 jlivingoodPremium,VIP
join:2007-10-28
Philadelphia, PA
kudos:1 | reply to funchords
said by funchords:•It took a huge positive step from ignoring and sometimes abusing Internet Standards to openly and actively supporting them. Comcast donated $25,000 to the ISOC/IETF (the Internet Standards and governance bodies and hosted two major events for them and Comcast employees are now taking an active role in the IETF standards-making process. We are actually a "platinum" supporting member of the Internet Society (ISOC, »www.isoc.org/orgs/benefits.shtml). ISOC and the IETF are great and truly important organizations, and I know I enjoy being active with the IETF, both as a working group co-chair, document author, and contributor (I am even a volunteer on the 2008 Nominating Committee). Apart from me, many other Comcasters are active in the IETF in similar capacities.
We were really pleased in March of this year to sponsor the 71st meeting of the IETF (aka IETF-71), and attracted nearly 1,500 engineers to Philadelphia for the week-long meeting (»ietf71.comcast.net). We took the opportunity to put a 100Gbps backbone link into production testing to support the event, and there was an interesting IPv6 test as well.
Regarding congestion management and P2P applications generally, the IETF has been very active lately. In May of this year, they organized a Peer to Peer Infrastructure (P2Pi) workshop with MIT in Cambridge, MA, which both you (Robb) and I attended. Since then, that spawned two Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at IETF-72 in late July.
One BoF was called Techniques for Advanced Networking Applications (TANA) and the other was Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO). TANA is about things like congestion management, scavenger data class, and related topics -- see »tools.ietf.org/agenda/72/tana.html. TANA is on a path to become a WG before IETF-73 in the fall. ALTO is more about P4P iTracker sorts of things, and that's still evolving and I think we will see a second BoF at IETF-73 -- see »tools.ietf.org/agenda/72/alto.html.
Regards
JL
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JL
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jlivingoodPremium,VIP
join:2007-10-28
Philadelphia, PA
kudos:1 | reply to funchords
said by funchords:•Even though it disagrees with the process, Comcast has committed to quit abusing the RST flag and will be disclosing what it did and its future plans to its customers and the FCC rather than make an example of them. So I'm really hopeful that these positive things continue. I'm hopeful as well.  And I think when people see our response you will agree that it is very detailed and transparent as well.
JL
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JL
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funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to jlivingood
Platinum, wow! Maybe I had old data, or just misremembered it. Sorry about that. The positive sentiment was real, nonetheless. | |
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