CRTC rules on Traffic Management Practices
Michael Peddemors
michael at linuxmagic.com
Wed Oct 21 16:03:21 UTC 2009
Holy Hannah!
ISP actions affecting content
According to the Telecommunications Act, a telecommunications company must
obtain the Commission’s prior approval to “control the content or influence
the meaning or purpose of telecommunications” carried over its network. The
Commission does not consider such disruptive actions to be proper Internet
traffic management practices, and they will always require prior approval.
An ISP would therefore need to seek the Commission’s approval before it
implemented a practice that would:
block the delivery of content to an end-user, or
slow down time-sensitive traffic, such as videoconferencing or Internet
telephone (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, to the extent that the
content is degraded.
When faced with these requests, the Commission will only grant its approval in
the most exceptional cases.
The email marketing lobby already got the legislation watered down on the spam
front, but does this in essence say that ISP's are no longer allowed to block
email content, viruses et al?
On October 21, 2009, Jeff Gallagher wrote:
> For those following the regulatory / net neutrality debate, the Canadian
> Radio and Telecommunications Commission released this morning a decision
> requiring additional transparency with respect to the traffic management
> practices of Canadian service providers.
>
> News Release:
> http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2009/r091021.htm
>
> Policy Details:
> http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-657.htm
>
>
> Jeff Gallagher
> Network Engineering
> jeff.gallagher at bellaliant.ca
>
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