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Has the FCC Created a Stone Too Heavy for It to Lift?

• Comment posted Jan 01, 2011 8:51 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I don't challenge your statement that your service quality has issues but rather your deduction that Comacast must be sabotaging Vonage and your subsequent statement tha they are doing it selectively by city, avoiding ones like DC because of potential…

• Comment posted Jan 01, 2011 8:01 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I was too busy to respond last week but have been keeping up with the banter.  Now that we're past the holidays (almost) let me catch up a bit. To Phillip, regarding: "My vonage service is almost unusable due to…

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2010 12:48 am PST — by Dan Campbell
  I have a hard time believing that your Vonage service is degrading to the point of being unusable.  I too have Vonage and have been running two Vonage lines over Comcast for over three years now.  It works fine, and…

No Free Lunch in Internet Peering or Transit

• Comment posted Dec 11, 2010 3:30 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Peering has traditionally been between large ISPs who exchange routes and deliver traffic to each other, usually of roughly equal "size" (and thus no need for transit fees), but more importantly without really being the exact source that is generating…

Outages Never Sleep!

• Comment posted Sep 22, 2010 3:31 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Actually, rule #2 is wrong.  I've been in many places where many folks have unreasonable expectations, effectively believing things don't break.  Senior management and sales first and foremost, both of which are typically not technical.  And customers too.  It's actually…

Comcast vs the FCC - A Reply to Susan Crawford's Article

• Comment posted Apr 12, 2010 8:26 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  I thought of a better way to put it.  I think too many of us make the leap from "unlimited" (however misleading that may be) to equal "dedicated to me".  That's seldom true, particularly for most telecom services.  It's like…

• Comment posted Apr 12, 2010 8:12 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Yes, there's always issues when it comes to the marketing folks putting the product on the street and pitching it to the often-non-technical public.  It doesn't even matter what industry.  Sure, they cannot advertise falsely and there should be consequences…

• Comment posted Apr 12, 2010 5:54 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Regardless of bad or misleading marketing language, there is no such thing as "unlimited" in our practical world.  Even if an ISP didn't differentiate between applications in any way, is it fair to have any and every possible expectation in…

The Greatest Free Riders of Our Time

• Comment posted Feb 02, 2010 7:20 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Yes Brett, that's a good point and I was thinking along the same lines.  Those that ride for free may be those that do as you say and otherwise benefit from the content being distributed by their "volunteers" or if…

• Comment posted Jan 29, 2010 10:14 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  We hear this over and over, that somehow content providers are riding the Internet for free.  The biggest point always missed when that statement is made is that somewhere the content provider has to pay for access.  I'm sure Apple…

$111M Good Reasons to Cancel Your Twitter Account

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2010 4:21 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  If he didn't tweet - and also that stupid pre-game antic, it's hard to tell how much of either played into Stern's decision - indeed he may still be playing and would not be forfieting $147K per game right now. …

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2010 4:16 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Your last point is exactly what I'm saying.  Essentially we are saying the same thing, and I didn't intend to demonize the technology.  I use email, cell phones, Internet access, blogging (obviously), Facebook among other technologies on a daily basis. …

NXDOMAIN Substitution: Good or Evil?

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2009 2:09 am PST — by Dan Campbell
  Notwithstanding DNS providers who are directly in the DNS business (such as UltraDNS), I would never look to DNS to generate revenue for a service provider that is providing access or transit service, and I wouldn't feel bad about providing,…

Network Neutrality, UPS, and FedEx

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2009 7:59 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  As far as the P2P situation goes, there were no "bandwidth hogs." There were indeed “bandwidth hogs”.  A few P2P users degraded the service for everyone else.  This is well known and not up for debate. Most telecom services are…

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2009 3:58 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  It’s somewhat pessimistic to view the lowest tier of any class-based service as a kind of “worst effort” service or something that is intentionally degraded.  Often, that is the service provider’s bread and butter.  Think of the airlines.  Coach class…

• Comment posted Dec 28, 2009 3:57 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Sorry, but the suggestion that a service provider might deliberately inject a 100ms delay on all “best effort” traffic in order to get customers to upgrade is far fetched. When it is suggested that something is not feasible, it is…

A Look Inside the European Response to Spam

• Comment posted Dec 24, 2009 5:46 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  | You cannot monitor and block specific ports and be "protocol agnostic" at the same time. | Correct, that's why there is so much confusion in the Net Neutraliy debate and the whole theory on networks being "protocol agnostic" is…

Network Neutrality, UPS, and FedEx

• Comment posted Dec 24, 2009 5:31 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  First of all, it's really not as easy as you say to arbitrarily place a delay as high as 100ms on all packets over a serial link much less end-to-end, not with regular routers/routing, and not without doing something really…

FiOS: A Reality Check

• Comment posted Dec 21, 2009 5:36 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I wouldn't have expected FiOS to be much faster than Comcast for routine individual transactions.  They are both fast enough to deliver them adequately and without much noticable difference.  It's only when you get into heavy volume or heavy individual…

McDonald's to Offer Free Internet Access, Will Become One of Largest Free Internet Access Providers

• Comment posted Dec 21, 2009 4:04 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  A more interesting perspective on this report would be to add in McD's offering of gourmet coffees, which already seems like an attempt to jump into that market and to draw some of the Starbucks crowd in for a McLatte…

FiOS: A Reality Check

• Comment posted Dec 21, 2009 3:49 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Testing over the Internet is about as nebulous as it gets.  There are way too many variables, some of which are beyond the control of the two broadband providers you are attempting to test side by side.  If you told…

gTLDs: Why Are Your Overarching Issues Not Relevant In IDN ccTLDs?

• Comment posted Dec 10, 2009 4:31 am PST — by Dan Campbell
  Not that it really changes your argument, because it is still probably a drop in the bucket compared to both their lawyer costs, revenue and other advertising expenses they shell out daily, but it's a lot more than just 1…

Dr. Peering Commits Malpractice on Net Neutrality

• Comment posted Nov 24, 2009 4:01 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  A major (if not the only) reason that "...Google became the good guys and big profitable carriers became the bad guys..." is because some (many) folks historically hate the telcos and cable companies from their past experiences with them, even…

The Tempest in the TLD Teapot

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2009 2:56 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Constantine, With no disrespect to your idea or business model as I have not read it outside of what you posted in your profile and in posts, I would also be skeptical if the elevator pitch bulleted those things as…

How Do You Do Secure Bank Transactions on the Internet?

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2009 2:34 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  John’s article seem to suggest that he was speaking not of businesses but of individuals like you or I who perform bank transactions online, and relatively few individuals have lost thousands much less hundreds of thousands of dollars performing such…

• Comment posted Nov 12, 2009 7:58 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  That's an interesting tactic and may be the way to go, but still, as the article suggests, the reasons many people use such services is convenience and speed as much as anything else.  The more we do to compromise convenience,…

Dot-Biz Saga

• Comment posted Nov 12, 2009 7:47 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  The .net strayed from its original intent, not nearly as much as .com obviously, but still it strayed.  I used to work for a consulting company that took a .net domain name simply because for the slick company name they…

How Do You Do Secure Bank Transactions on the Internet?

• Comment posted Nov 09, 2009 8:54 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  John, Not that I have anything against your idea - I like it - but there are other costs to consider.  You began the article about how the banks love it when customers do online transaction because it is so…

Beyond Net Neutrality: A Manifesto for Internet Freedom

• Comment posted Oct 25, 2009 11:41 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Through all the net neutrality debate as well as in other circles I often hear the same refrain over and over again, that "these companies are spending millions of dollars on lobbyists...", and wonder if that is not exaggerated, or…

The Broadband Numbers Racket

• Comment posted Sep 28, 2009 2:38 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  An interesting article and even better evaluation paper. It just goes to show how difficult it is to really make fair comparisons across the globe when there are all sorts of factors at play, many that aren't assessed even in…

The Freedom to Innovate Without Permission

• Comment posted Sep 22, 2009 6:14 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Yes, the Internet has largely been “open” and that is probably the biggest factor contributing to its success.  That general philosophy needs to stay the same.  But let’s not be too idealistic of what “open” really means in the practical…

U.S. Internet Providers Seek Low Broadband Bar

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 5:03 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  DC is a great area to live for alot of reasons.  I've traveled the world, mostly for work, every continent (well, except Antartica), lots of countries and cities, not to mention domestic travel, and yet I still love DC.  My…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:12 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  I'm an engineer and consultant that has spent close to two decades designing, building and operating domestic and global enterprise and service provider networks, including broadband services.  I know the bits and bytes.  I've also done enough work on the…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:07 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  My guess is that they factored in multi-dwelling units into the evaluation that came up with the near-FastE average speed.  It's misleading.  10 is reasonable, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't entirely accurate either.  I'm sure it's a…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 3:48 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  That may be true, the big boys have lots of $$$ and lots of lawyers for sure, and I certainly hope things improve with better service, higher speeds and more features.  But it doesn't make my points inaccurate.  The article…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 3:23 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  ...but I have to laugh at these kinds of articles, and in Forbes no less.  You lose credibility in a hurry when you are writing an article about what broadband speeds should be yet you don't know the difference between…

Routing Redundancy: How Much Is Enough?

• Comment posted Aug 16, 2009 1:57 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  And those points are unfortunately not understood but those that have never designed a network or system before, including pro-network neutrality folks who think bandwidth is infinite and free and that you don't need to manage the system.  Oversubscriptions applies…

IPv6, Phone Numbers and Analogies

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2009 8:45 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  The phone number analogy is always good, mainly because even lay people understand what a phone number is, they've used them all their life, and they can grasp why the 7 digit (at least in the US) scheme was running…

Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure?

• Comment posted Aug 10, 2009 6:26 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Your parallels to society are interesting and accurate.  It's a constant struggle between things like "freedom" and "openness" and "privacy" with "security" and "law / law enforcement", with the ever-present "cost" factor figuring in.  We always try to achieve a…

Networks and Nationalization

• Comment posted Jul 21, 2009 5:54 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Civilians already control the cyber battlefield to a large extent.  Service providers often respond to attacks generated by, targeted for or traversing within their networks.  They have IDS that may identify the attack traffic to which they may take action,…

I Needed Music 'cos I Had None...

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2009 1:09 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Unfortunately there are downsides to all this, and not just for the music industry execs (who pretty much deserve any and all misery that has come their way, as much of it indeed was self generated.) Although music acquisition and…

"It's The Internet Stupid" ...I Respectfully Disagree

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2009 1:57 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  On the statement, "north american broadband Internet markets are an abject failure." On what exactly do you base that?  Comparisons to other countries?  As we've seen, these evaluations are tenuous at best, often comparing apples to oranges, making gross generalizations…

A Clear Case for ISP Regulation: IP Address Logging

• Comment posted Jun 04, 2009 2:10 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  From what I've seen in ISPs, CALEA only requires that you have the ability to provide a traffic feed and sampling if requested to do so by law enforcement.  It doesn't need to be running all the time and you…

IPv6 and LTE, the Not So Long Term Evolution?

• Comment posted Jun 03, 2009 1:20 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  It’s more than just shortsighted to continue to push NAT as a solution.  It’s downright foolish, and it’s suggesting that bad engineering is the right solution.  NAT has always been nothing more than a work-around, a band-aid.  A good one…

Crawford Likes Aussie Utility Network

• Comment posted May 29, 2009 8:50 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  I think the "15x" number was simply an estimate based on a population ratio of 300M Americans / 20M Aussies, and even both of those numbers are estimates to start with (but pretty close).  And yes you are right, that…

IPv6 a Case of Confirmation Bias

• Comment posted Mar 31, 2009 3:33 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  It is kind of funny that several articles that came out of the ISOC panel referred to broccoli, carrots (and sticks) and even dogfood.  Maybe it was because it was a lunchtime panel?

Obama's Missed Opportunity

• Comment posted Mar 27, 2009 3:40 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Now, as far as Crawford.  I don’t have an opinion on whether that position should be filled by someone with more of a legal / policy background or one with more of a business or technical background.  There are good…

• Comment posted Mar 27, 2009 3:34 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Wow, where to start.  I’ve tried to stay out of this argument and frankly anything that Joe xx is involved in but no longer can.  This is getting ridiculous. First of all, Joe “xx”, you claim that everyone is attacking…

Another Look at the Broadband Gap in US

• Comment posted Mar 12, 2009 1:32 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  This is an interesting article and analysis.  What is more interesting is many of the comments that provide either excellent rebuttals or first hand evidence that things are not exactly as they seem.  Read some of the comments - there…

America is No. 1 in Broadband According to New Connectivity Scorecard

• Comment posted Feb 23, 2009 6:29 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Faster than that and easily above 1Mbps but the rates vary because the upstream is shared and is limited first by physical factors but then more so by business factors.  Cable, DSL and any broadband service - and really any…

• Comment posted Feb 23, 2009 3:58 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Yes, I've been wondering the same thing after continually seeing weekly reports on how the US is 22nd in the world in broadband, nope make that 8th, sorry I meant 53rd, oops the US is actually number 1, etc. etc. …

Carriers Are Trying to Take Back Control of the Home Network

• Comment posted Jan 23, 2009 4:38 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  A lot of us love to hate telcos and cable companies, and typically for justifiable service-related and/or price reasons.  But sometimes this unnecessarily morphs into speculation that would make Hollywood blush regarding their sinister motives.  It is typically oriented around…

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2009 4:43 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I wouldn't necessary conclude that they are trying to take over the home network and are limiting your internal cabling options simply for the purpose of control.  I too am a professional networker that would rather have options, mostly would…

Julius Genachowski, FCC, and White Spaces: The Good and Not So Good News

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2009 2:48 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Perhaps a simpler reason for not postponing the transition is so as not to continue coddling people who cannot seem to own up to some level of responsiblity.  People have had ample time (years!), notice and subsidies to get their…

Reply-All Creates a DDoS Attack?

• Comment posted Jan 12, 2009 7:44 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I don't know about the State Dept and will have to read the article, but I think the issue is less the actual load on servers, storage and the network - although that may play into it - than what…

ICANN Uses For-Profit Companies as "Comparables" in Its Employee Compensation

• Comment posted Jan 12, 2009 4:25 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Joe - well, yes, but as we've seen (this decade for sure but even further back), our non-government "leaders" are probably just as corrupt and inefficient (incompetent) if not more so, whether they are from Enron to Arthuer Anderson to…

2008: The Year That VoIP Died

• Comment posted Dec 31, 2008 12:06 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  As a customer of Vonage, I wouldn't say that they are undifferentiated from other providers, especially legacy telcos.  That may be true or at least close with respect to pricing, but even at that I'm not sure because their pricing…

One Good Outcome from the Wall Street Journal: Google Flap

• Comment posted Dec 22, 2008 4:10 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Milton, Your post does an excellent job in articulating some of the confusion around NN.  Indeed, too much is (over)stated about both sides of the arguments, and as you point out, not all forms of, let's just call it network…

What Could the RIAA's Switch in Strategy Mean?

• Comment posted Dec 22, 2008 4:25 am PST — by Dan Campbell
  One thing I’ve always found funny and confusing about this issue is the inconsistency of how copyright law is applied.  I’ll read through the PDF and maybe it will answer my questions, but perhaps you or any other lawyer out…

What If I Were Wrong About Edge-Caching?

• Comment posted Dec 18, 2008 8:41 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Yes, I've often wondered through all this NN talk why so many other technologies prevalent on the Internet are not generating the same headlines as the Comcast/BitTorrent issue.  Caching is one of them, as it proxies for the actual content…

Free, Slow, Censored Internet: A Bad Idea

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2008 9:55 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  A couple of quick points that have no real effect or add much value ;-)… - I'm not sure dial-up ever "worked fine" unless you mean maybe 1995, and even then....I don't know.  But there are still so many unfortunate…

Net Neutrality Advocates: Wireless Carriers' Network Management Must Be 'Reasonable'

• Comment posted Nov 12, 2008 2:04 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  There really isn't much difference.  All telecom services are built on some sort of oversubscription model, some more extreme than others depending on the underlying technologies and resources available.  Oversubscription is important to ensure that business model can be maintained,…

First Broad Internet Census Since 1982 Reveals Surprising Number of Unused IPv4 Addresses

• Comment posted Oct 16, 2008 2:46 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Yeah, this really isn't the right technique.  Many PINGs will be blocked by firewalls even though the hosts are indeed alive.  And many addresses within live subnets won't actually be assigned to hosts, but they are still "in use" because…

Comcast is Right, the FCC is Wrong

• Comment posted Sep 30, 2008 8:09 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Mike, So, what are your viewpoints on NAT, PAT, transparent caching, WAN optimization / TCP acceleration, etc.?  These and other technologies are found in abundance on the Internet. They too alter IP addresses, packets, data transactions and protocol interaction.  They…

• Comment posted Sep 30, 2008 1:37 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  There are also several satellite-based Internet access services available, at least Hughes, Starband and Wildblue.  Their satellites cover the whole US of course, a larger area than Comcast or any other cable or DSL provider, although some satellite providers focus…

Net Neutrality an 'American Problem', Australians Suggest Alternatives

• Comment posted Sep 29, 2008 2:54 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  First of all, the statement "optical fiber basically doesn't run out of capacity" is not relevant because we are talking about a last (or first!) mile problem.  The Internet backbone is not the issue.  It is technologies like DOCSIS cable…

Comcast is Right, the FCC is Wrong

• Comment posted Sep 29, 2008 1:42 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Whether you realize it or not, most business are unfortunately best effort no matter how much they disguise it.  (Have you flown lately?) Pretty much everything we do operates on an oversubscription scheme of some sort, whether it is tables…

Comcast's Network Management Practices: A Brief Analysis

• Comment posted Sep 25, 2008 2:33 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Well, there are other protocols besides TCP, and they don’t recover from dropped packets.  VoIP and streaming video are getting more and more popular.  The former is a direct threat to legacy telephony, and the latter, while eventually becoming a…

• Comment posted Sep 23, 2008 6:20 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  All it really means is that Comcast is falling back to a more traditional, and apparently more socially acceptable, means of providing QoS on a network (albeit a step above pure Diffserv-based QoS).  Most QoS devices such as Packeteer and…

Satellite Internet Access That Could Be Good

• Comment posted Sep 10, 2008 6:51 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  It will be interesting to find out if their initial deployment will be a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 network, given the timing of their deployment and the developing (and large) target market they intend to serve.

Hunting Unicorns: Myths and Realities of the Net Neutrality Debate

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2008 2:35 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  I use the terms "metered" or "usage-based" liberally to sum up anything that is not flat-rate no-usage-maximum "all you can eat" service, rather than try to come up with terms for th e 50 different permutations of, well, "usage-based" service. …

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2008 12:43 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  The email spam analogy is interesting but ironically can work both ways.  I know what you are saying, but spam has become such a problem that ISPs and business are using invasive tactics to thwart it.  Spam filters often cause…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 6:28 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Brett, I typically ignore your responses because they tend not to offer much more than sarcasm and criticism, particularly directed towards Richard Bennett to whom you seem to show a particular disdain (and frankly, whose comments are typically on the…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 2:00 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  If the whole Comcast / Net Neutrality argument is purely based on stopping something early before it becomes the slippery slope, then fine.  But you are bringing up things that aren't the case right now.  Comcast uses DPI-based P2P throttling…

FCC's Comcast Ruling Inconsistent and Incoherent

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 7:13 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  No one is necessarily stopping you from running a web server, but if it does suddenly generate tons of traffic, it could have impact, thus the ISPs at least want to discourage it.  As for the assymetry, it affects more…

Hunting Unicorns: Myths and Realities of the Net Neutrality Debate

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 7:01 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  What adult expects the world to be fair?  It's not, never has been, never will be. The Internet is no exception.  The Internet is not (no longer) a Government subsidized service provided for free.  When it was run by the…

FCC's Comcast Ruling Inconsistent and Incoherent

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 12:32 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Joakim, The reasons are simple.  One is technical, that is, the upstream is typically more constrained in bandwidth than the downstream (towards the subscriber) in broadband platforms, and the very assymetric nature of Internet traffic where (typically, at least for…

Deep Packet Inspection: When the Man-In-The-Middle Wants Money

• Comment posted Jul 30, 2008 2:36 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  It's hard for me to understand why DPI is generating news now.  It's been around for a long time and is inherent in most networks in many different kinds of devices.  There are many devices that inspect traffic and act…

FCC and Comcast: Reasonably Vague

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 6:06 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Few people will read the service contract.  Those that do will skim it, probably not understand the part about the shared bandwidth or at least not understand the implication, and even if they do they will likely not remember months…

No Fines for Comcast

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 2:54 am PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Brett, I'm not sure if I'm reading you right, but I sense that you have a bit of doubt that the P2P problem actually exists.  Trust me, it does.  The behavior of the protocols and the traffic they generate are…

Knowing Less

• Comment posted Jun 12, 2008 1:51 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  Content filering is not uncommon on private enterprise / business networks.  The proxy devices, for example Blue Coat, can be configured to be pretty specific, to URL level and user level, or can be configured with general rules that end…

Sprint's Big Deal: New Life for WiMax

• Comment posted May 07, 2008 2:43 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  "Assuming the deal is for real" are the key words.  This has been on again off again more than a Hollywood romance. It seems like every few weeks I pick up the paper and see that this deal is back…

Managing Internet as a Shared Resource: Reasonable Technical Constraints?

• Comment posted Apr 08, 2008 8:51 pm PDT — by Dan Campbell
  If you have followed the Comcast/FCC story, and if you have read alot of the blogs related to the topic, you'll find that most people (or at least those that feel strongly enough to writea comment) want a complete hands-off…

Why Telcos Don't Get Networks

• Comment posted Mar 05, 2008 8:31 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I'd be interested in reading that.  You are correct, it should be about content.  It's like the demand for roads in major cities that result from the "content" inside or surrounding the city, e.g., businesses, jobs, malls, sports arenas, condos,…

On Comcast and Net Neutrality: Shouting Fire in a Theater

• Comment posted Mar 04, 2008 12:40 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I am not sure how I misinformed anyone about AT&T;’s DSL pricing since I make no mention of it anywhere.  (But I do find it amusing that the word “monopoly” is mentioned in the same post where AT&T;is used as…

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2008 8:50 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  All good points, but metered services do discourage even relatively mild usage patterns.  With gas prices as they are, I'm quicker to put on a sweater than to crank up the heat even just a few degrees.  Water is relatively…

IPv6 Over Satellite: Pie in the Sky?

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2008 2:21 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I wonder why IABG chose not to have a booth at the Sat conference this week.  They seem to attend many others.

The Front Running Class Action Suit

• Comment posted Feb 27, 2008 9:07 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Wouldn't the class in the action be other registrars rather than (or at least in conjunction with) the actual people who registered domains?  The other registrars, like the one I usually use who didn't get my recent business because of…

Federal Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Network Solutions and ICANN

• Comment posted Feb 26, 2008 2:20 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't get the used car analogy! I'd like to know how to get on the plaintiff's list because I got burned by this recently and want my $25 back! NSI has a…

Pakistan Hijacks YouTube: A Closer Look

• Comment posted Feb 25, 2008 11:02 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often, if not inadvertently then as a form of attack.  So much of the Internet indeed depends on trust, it's a wonder it doesn't break down more often.  Smaller ISPs don't have the…

Comments on an IP Address Trading Market

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2008 7:13 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  I agree.  It will be tough to create that much value for individual addresses because they will never be individually routable.  And you can't expect those that are willing to pay $10K or $100K for a single address to somehow…

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2008 4:25 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Understood.  But I'm not sure where it stands now.  I did a study round about 2002 when the table was like 125,000 routes and I found the bulk, something like 60 or 70%, were /24s.  Those aren't aggregates unfortunately, but…

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2008 3:01 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  McTim, Good comments, thanks.  It's been a few years (actually probably more like 5) since I last turned over address / route management to an operations group, so I wasn't up on the automatic /21 AW.  That's great news.  We…

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2008 7:26 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Renumbering is never fun and is always a hassle.  For many organizations, I doubt the incentive would be enough to convince them to undergo the risk and effort.  Once the addresses get threaded through servers, applications, network management systems, processes,…

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2008 6:36 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Regarding Jeff's comments, if I read it right you are just saying that the address transfer occurs when two corporations legally merge.  I have no issue with that.  That's legitimate, albeit odd that a business would acquire another simply because…

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2008 6:21 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  A few more things I forgot to mention.  One, in the first allocation process you also have to show proof of being a legal entity, e.g., incorporated or something similar, in the RIR's territory.  You usually have to show an…

Walks Like a Telco, Yalks Like a Telco... Must be a Telco

• Comment posted Jan 08, 2008 8:58 pm PST — by Dan Campbell
  Well, Vonage is (a.) still very cheap, (b.) provides good service and (c.) supplies service that even non-computer / non-Skype people can use.  Aside from the $25/month flat rate for US calling, which is cheaper than I was getting before…