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@bellaliant.ca
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