Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
The issue is use of dpi to eliminate congestion stemming from p2p's natural unfairness behind the unbundling interface. F. Le 09-03-01 à 21:14, Jack Bates a écrit : Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: In short, the entire DPI debate is starting to go on similar lines, and flogging similar horses

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Jack Bates
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: In short, the entire DPI debate is starting to go on similar lines, and flogging similar horses, as the gun control debate Yes, dpi has great, useful applications (ddos mitigation and other security, for example). And it has bad / harmful applications (dictatorship

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
In short, the entire DPI debate is starting to go on similar lines, and flogging similar horses, as the gun control debate Yes, dpi has great, useful applications (ddos mitigation and other security, for example). And it has bad / harmful applications (dictatorships doing dpi to catch political d

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2009-03-01 Thread Simon Lyall
A reminder that political threads are prohibited from the mailing list under the AUP. Participants in the "DPI or Flow Management" might wish to move their discussion to a more politically orientated forum such as the Network Neutrality Squad mailing list: http://www.nnsquad.o

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: With regards to DDoS mitigation, it's sometimes necessary to go above layers-3/-4 in the event of layer-7-targeted attacks. In fact, it's sometimes important to have the ability to parse packet payloads and/or interact with traffic in some

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: There is no righteous purpose, period. Full Stop. With regards to DDoS mitigation, it's sometimes necessary to go above layers-3/-4 in the event of layer-7-targeted attacks. -

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Randy Bush
> Yah. I like what Mike O'Dell said at > http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2009/03/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/3:12/ >I admit to no debate on Deep Packet Inspection by ISPs, >advertisers, or other assorted evesdroppers. >It is very, very simple and as black-and-white as they com

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:39:24 +0900 Randy Bush wrote: > > The emphasis, is the need to open the envelope to decide how to > > route them... > > and more of my margin goes to the folk who make envelope openers. and > this is a good thing? and it helps get the packets to the customer > how? > >

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Randy Bush
> The emphasis, is the need to open the envelope to decide how to route > them... and more of my margin goes to the folk who make envelope openers. and this is a good thing? and it helps get the packets to the customer how? pfui! randy

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
Its like the post office getting envolopes by the truckload, then opening each envelope, read the content, to decide when to send the opened letter for delivery, either by foot or car, claiming that such a decision process will prevent envelopes from flooding the post office, coming into the post

RE: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
> -Original Message- > From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:49 AM > To: Lorell Hathcock > Cc: 'nanog list' > Subject: Re: DPI or Flow Management > > Its like the post office getting envolopes by the truck

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
l Hathcock -Original Message- From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog list Subject: DPI or Flow Management The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial contribution at the CRTC stating: 1) The CRTC should forb

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
t-il avoir également inclus une interprétation française aussi bien ? Sincèrement, Lorell Hathcock -Original Message- From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog list Subject: DPI or Flow Management The Coalition of Internet Service

RE: DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Lorell Hathcock
-Original Message- From: Francois Menard [mailto:franc...@menards.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog list Subject: DPI or Flow Management The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial contribution at the CRTC stating: 1) The CRTC should forbid

DPI or Flow Management

2009-03-01 Thread Francois Menard
The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial contribution at the CRTC stating: 1) The CRTC should forbid DPI, as it cannot be proven to be 98.5% effective at trapping P2P, such as to guarantee congestion relief 2) The CRTC should allow for other forms of traffic manag

Re: DPI or Flow Management

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
Francois Menard wrote: > The Coalition of Internet Service Providers has filed a substantial > contribution at the CRTC stating: > > 1) The CRTC should forbid DPI, as it cannot be proven to be 98.5% > effective at trapping P2P, such as to guarantee congestion relief > > 2) The CRTC should allow f