I think they actually might… It’s very hard to identify streams in UDP since 
UDP is stateless.

Owen

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 09:03 , Steve Mikulasik <steve.mikula...@civeo.com> wrote:
> 
> That is much better than I thought. Although, I don't think the person who 
> wrote this understands what UDP is.
> 
> "Use of technology protocols that are demonstrated to prevent video stream 
> detection, such as User Datagram Protocol “UDP” on any platform will exclude 
> video streams from that content provider"
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Smith [mailto:i.sm...@f5.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:52 AM
> To: Steve Mikulasik <steve.mikula...@civeo.com>; Shane Ronan 
> <sh...@ronan-online.com>; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
> 
> http://www.t-mobile.com/content/dam/tmo/en-g/pdf/BingeOn-Video-Technical-Criteria-November-2015.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Steve Mikulasik
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:37 AM
> To: Shane Ronan <sh...@ronan-online.com>; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
> 
> What are these technical requirements? I feel like these would punish small 
> upstarts well helping protect large incumbent services from competition. 
> 
> Even if you don't demand payment, you can still hurt the fairness of the 
> internet this way. 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Shane Ronan
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:25 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
> 
> T-Mobile claims they are not accepting any payment from these content 
> providers for inclusion in Binge On.
> 
> "Onstage today, Legere said any company can apply to join the Binge On 
> program. "Anyone who can meet our technical requirement, we’ll include," 
> he said. "This is not a net neutrality problem." Legere pointed to the fact 
> that Binge On doesn't charge providers for inclusion and customers don't pay 
> to access it."
> http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/10/9704482/t-mobile-uncarrier-binge-on-netflix-hbo-streaming
> 
> 
> On 11/20/15 10:45 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> According to:
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/fcc-chairman-gives-t-mobiles-binge-
>> on-the-thumbs-up/
>> 
>> Chairman Wheeler thinks that T-mob's new "customers can get uncapped 
>> media stream data, but only from the people we like" service called 
>> Binge On is pro-competition.
>> 
>> My take on this is that the service is *precisely* what Net Neutrality 
>> was supposed to prevent -- carriers offering paid fast-lanes to 
>> content providers -- and that this is anti-competitive to the sort of 
>> "upstart YouTube" entities that NN was supposed to protect...
>> 
>> and that *that* is the competition that NN was supposed to protect.
>> 
>> And I just said the same thing two different ways.
>> 
>> Cause does anyone here think that T-mob is giving those *carriers* 
>> pride of place *for free*?
>> 
>> Corporations don't - in my experience - give away lots of money out of 
>> the goodness of their hearts.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- jr 'whacky weekend' a
> 

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