Comments on: The politics of DPI http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24709 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thomas Koltai http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24709/comment-page-1#comment-978450 Thomas Koltai Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:13:44 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=24709#comment-978450 I'm afraid that as an ex-ISP and now as just an ISP user I see and understand both sides of the argument. An ISP needs to use DPI type hardware to prevent network failure. As an ISP client - I dont really want anyone to look inside my packets. They're my packets and only intended for the person that I am sending to or receiving from. Packet shaping needs to take place or the networks will fail. I considered that possibly users could be made cognizant of the effects on the networks that P2P programs have alas I have learnt that will not be achieved in short order. Possibly an answer is to form a P2P organisation that asks users to agree to a voluntary code of P2P conduct. With enough users, the organisation would have enormous lobbying power. I’m afraid that as an ex-ISP and now as just an ISP user I see and understand both sides of the argument.
An ISP needs to use DPI type hardware to prevent network failure.
As an ISP client – I dont really want anyone to look inside my packets. They’re my packets and only intended for the person that I am sending to or receiving from.

Packet shaping needs to take place or the networks will fail.
I considered that possibly users could be made cognizant of the effects on the networks that P2P programs have alas I have learnt that will not be achieved in short order.

Possibly an answer is to form a P2P organisation that asks users to agree to a voluntary code of P2P conduct.
With enough users, the organisation would have enormous lobbying power.

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