In message <8C5F1FEC-FF51-4BA2-A762-C13BC275E806@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes:
It would seem that as ISPs implement DPI and protocol-specific traffic shaping, they damage the arguments that they can make claiming they have "common carrier" status with the inherent immunities that status provides. I can hear the argument now: if an ISP can throttle BitTorrent (or whatever) for specific nodes, why can't they also limit the source addresses of packets coming from those nodes?
They can and should. I suspect many of them do as they usually apply these filters to home networks. BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. It should have been factored into the purchasing decision of all the current equipement. If it wasn't then the operator was negligent. Mark
Regards, -drc
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