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Carriers Skirting Rules on Network Neutrality vs. Free's Innovative Network

• Comment posted Jan 23, 2012 8:43 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  "Customers aren't interested in buying bandwidth or quality of service to enhance their user experience." In the sense of paying extra for it, possibly not. But in the sense of choosing one service provider over another they probably are; some…

Net Neutrality: A Net-Head View

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2010 4:15 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  Well, what you write here: http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/what-is-true-neutrality-in-the-network/ is more or less what I consider Network neutrality to be, and that aligns with Tim Berners-Lee's definition as well. So I consider you to be a network neutrality supporter. The real problem is…

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2010 5:41 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  I read your paper and that showed that I already understood DPI perfectly well thanks. DPI is a somewhat brittle technology, as it is not capable of correctly classifying all network traffic. I note that you seem to be describing…

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2010 3:52 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  The 'debate' being framed in terms of 'free market' 'content providers' 'ISP's 'winners' and 'losers' is itself a distortion of the problem. The general lack of network neutrality hurts *everyone* on the internet, whether they're in business or not. Even…

An Unwelcome Afterlife for a Long-Dead Blacklist

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2009 4:51 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  If you're annoyed at them deliberately screwing up your your mail, you should block the *replies* from network.us, not the packets leaving your network. That way they still have to process it. Your software will probably try to make connections…

• Comment posted Oct 13, 2009 6:52 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  ...is probably to blackhole the blackhole.us domain's IPs. That way all of the DNS requests will get eaten. If you're feeling aggrieved you would blackhole it only in the inbound direction to your network, and only the received packets will…

Routing Redundancy: How Much Is Enough?

• Comment posted Aug 19, 2009 2:28 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  If the network is set up correctly the internet gives you guaranteed bandwidth up to the contention ratio you've paid for. That's often enough for a voice connection. There's no guarantee that the thing you're trying to connect to at…

IPv6 Backwards Compatibility for IPv4 Most Critical Mistake, Developers Admit

• Comment posted Mar 31, 2009 6:35 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  When I first read the proposals I had to admit that I never understood how that was ever supposed to work. I kind of assumed I was just too stupid to understand their arguments; but it turns out that they…

Net Neutrality and the Obama Stimulus Package

• Comment posted Dec 16, 2008 4:51 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  Actually the UK recently had a major failure of Network Neutrality on most ISPs for the Wikipedia. All the traffic was clustered through a few servers, and all editing was banned or severely slowed. This was done under claims of…

Broadband Internet Crunch is Beginning to Occur

• Comment posted Nov 25, 2008 5:32 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  The telecoms manufacturers paid for this study? How would not having enough bandwidth be a bad thing for the ISPs anyway? They'd be forced to charge more and make more profit. Oh dear. And I'd like to know how this…

Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front

• Comment posted Aug 06, 2008 5:03 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  We need to stop enumerating badness. There's more bad applications out there than good, so a register of all the good applications would be smaller, and the good apps aren't trying to hide themselves.

FCC and Comcast: Reasonably Vague

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 5:07 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  But you have to consider that, if the service providers really attempted to disclose it, if they really tried to explain the theory behind oversubscription and how it keeps broadband prices low, could it really be done in a way…

No Fines for Comcast

• Comment posted Jul 13, 2008 6:20 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  Comment removed by CircleID Admin as per Codes of Conduct.

• Comment posted Jul 13, 2008 5:46 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  Traffic analysis? Good thing there's no known ways to tackle that like 'Traffic flow security'. That was invented in WWII. What could go wrong? Really, as soon as you start treating your own customers like they were the enemy in…

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2008 11:19 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  I'm constantly stunned at how badly Richard Bennett fails to get this stuff. Comcast are currently using deep packet inspection to try to enforce network non neutralities. It's a daft, losing strategy. The reason it fails is because any company…

Introductory Remarks from Innovation '08

• Comment posted Jun 16, 2008 2:56 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  VOIP is both latency sensitive as well as jitter sensitive. As latency goes above about 100ms perceived quality by the users plummets and you tend to get a lot of echoes and people talking at the same time and so…

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

• Comment posted Dec 13, 2007 7:59 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  In spite of the claim in the article, there is a technical issue here, DNSSEC doesn't support multiple roots; if it did that, then there would be no political issue, because everyone would get to win. The fact that the…

IPv6 for the Rest of Us

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 12:24 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  You can have multiple fixed IP addresses on IPv6, so that at least is an advantage, whereas many ISPs typically can only provide one under IPv4.

Internet Governance: An Antispam Perspective

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2006 7:12 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  I find that the problem is more taking a utopian view of this. Short of keeping your computer off the net, ultimately, no technological fix can completely eradicate all phishing and spamming. There's always the chance that the bad guys…