Ok guys and girls -- just who is telling the truth.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com>
> Date: May 24, 2008 3:22:03 PM EDT
> To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    Ok guys and girls -- just who is telling  
> the truth.

> [For IP, if worthy]
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 06:43:44AM -0700, David Farber wrote:
> > Sorry for the misunderstanding of what Comcast said -- I heard STOP
> > not stop someday real soon djf (they need better communications)
>
>        In the far future, so we are told, a system will be developed
> where everyone will be a publisher, where they will be able to get  
> their
> message out without gatekeepers. It'll be called the Intruthnot, or
> something like that (and be full of Universal Resource Lie-caters).
>
>        So, *without* *taking* *sides*, Comcast's actual statement is:
>
> http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=740
> "Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network
> Management, Network Architecture and Content Distribution"
>
>        Of which the most relevant portion is:
>
> "The Comcast and BitTorrent discussions have already produced
>  meaningful results.  On the one hand, Comcast announced that it will
>  migrate by year-end 2008 to a capacity management technique that is
>  protocol agnostic.  "This means that we will have to rapidly
>  reconfigure our network management systems, but the outcome will be
>  a traffic management technique that is more appropriate for today's
>  emerging Internet trends.  We have been discussing this migration
>  and its effects with leaders in the Internet community for the last
>  several months, and we will refine, adjust, and publish the
>  technique based upon feedback and initial trial results," said Tony
>  Werner, Comcast Cable's Chief Technology Officer.
>
>  In turn, BitTorrent acknowledged the need of ISPs to manage their
>  networks, especially during times of peak congestion.  "While we
>  think there were other management techniques that could have been
>  deployed, we understand why Comcast and other ISPs adopted the
>  approach that they did initially.  Recognizing that the Web is
>  richer and more bandwidth intensive than it has been historically,
>  we are pleased that Comcast understands these changing traffic
>  patterns and wants to collaborate with us to migrate to techniques
>  that the Internet community will find to be more transparent," said
>  Eric Klinker, BitTorrent's Chief Technology Officer.
>
>  "Earlier this year, Comcast announced its plans for the aggressive
>  deployment of wideband Internet services using the DOCSIS 3.0
>  standard, which we project will be available in up to 20% of
>  Comcast's households by the end of this year," said John Schanz,
>  Comcast Cable's Executive Vice President of National Engineering and
>  Technical Operations.  "Additionally, we plan to more than double
>  the upstream capacity of our residential Internet service in several
>  key markets by year end 2008.  We plan to take advantage of
>  multi-carrier technology to further increase upstream capacity for
>  all of our broadband customers in advance of the full DOCSIS 3.0
>  roll out."
>
>
> --
> Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  http://sethf.com
> Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
> Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php



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