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CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules
An anonymous reader writes "The CRTC today introduced a new framework to guide Internet service providers in their use of Internet traffic management practices. ISPs will be required to inform retail customers at least 30 days, and wholesale customers at least 60 days, before an Internet traffic management practice takes effect. At that time, ISPs will need to describe how the practice will affect their customers' service. The Commission encourages ISPs to make investments to increase network capacity as much as possible. However, the Commission realizes that ISPs may need other measures to manage the traffic on their networks at certain times. Technical means to manage traffic, such as traffic shaping, should only be employed as a last resort."
The same way the Sedition Act wasn't supporting sedition;(
And innovation takes another giant leap backwards.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
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But how do you really feel.
You are quite entitled to make any protests in the appropriate time period. Provided, of course, you visit the unlit cellar with broken stairs at the ISP offices, where you can find the notice on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
"world wide web" isn't synonymous with "internet"
my internet is netscape where do i get world wide web
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Presumably, if that is actually written into the law, then it means that traffic shaping could never be used. After all, there is always something that could be done prior to a last resort. It's like that phrase "best efforts". I suppose now we'll see the ISPs hiring hit squads to silence zealous users as a possible recourse prior to traffic shaping.
Nullius in verba
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Help! Help! He's being repressed!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Can't reach _any_ Michael Geist sites (from either my cable and DSL conns). Coincidence? I think not!!!
You voted Conservative? Yes, it's your fault my Internet sucks, jerk.