Interpreting Network Discrimination in the CRTC and FCC

Author

Perry, Mark ; Margoni, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

10-16 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

306

Abstract

The issue of what discriminatory use of a network means has arisen in two recent decisions of the United States and Canadian federal communications commissions, the FCC and the CRTC respectively. The topic is a contemporary and hotly debated one, as when a course is fixed it will strongly influence the future of the Internet. It can be stated as the dichotomy of open and competitive or closed and oligopolistic. A study and comparison of the two different approaches is vital to clarify the debate, and hopefully guide Canadian policy in a direction that will benefit the whole community.

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; government policies; telecommunication industry; telecommunication services; CRTC; Canadian Federal communications commission; Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunication Commission; Canadian policy; FCC; Internet; United States communications commission; network discrimination; Communication system control; Computer science; FCC; Inspection; Internet; Monitoring; Network neutrality; North America; Privacy; Telecommunication traffic; Deep Packet Inspection; Network Neutrality; Packet Discrimination; Policy; Traffic Shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Society, 2010. ICDS '10. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Maarten

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5805-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDS.2010.53

Filename

5432778