management practices

Net pioneers trash Comcast's P2P traffic treatment

CNET Tech blog  Mon, 02/25/2008 - 9:26pm

A few hundred students, locals, and Washington policy transplants showed up for the Federal Communications Commission's public hearing on broadband network management practices in this Harvard Law School courtroom.

The crowd had thinned out, however, by the afternoon session, when two Internet engineering pioneers weighed in on the ...



 

Rep. Markey: Don't turn BitTorrent into 'BitTrickle'

CNET Tech blog  Mon, 02/25/2008 - 11:01am

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--At an unusual public hearing held away from Washington, D.C., federal regulators and a key Democratic congressman on Monday said they're investigating the Comcast vs.

BitTorrent dispute and are ready to take action against network management practices that disrupt Internet users' experiences.