Previously I've talked about net neutrality in Singapore here and the COP in UK here. Today I came across the net neutrality regulation framework in canada. The pressrelease and info can be found here
The surprising part is the date of release in in 2009 which means Canadians have the regulation developed almost a good one and half year back. In summary,
* ITMP (Internet traffic management practices) should be transparent when employed
* Overall ISP's should invest in network to avoid congestion. However they can implement certain ITMP to manage at certain points.
* When they are employed they MUST be designed to address a DEFINED need and nothing more.
* Applicable to Mobile broadband.
If I've to compare this to our current situation in Singapore, I've very little positive words to mention. Today we've very 'generic' definitions on what will be controlled/blocked/throttled and at what times. Also the impact to individual customer is not clearly communicated (ISP's say that they throttle to certain % out of their capacity. So if one customer is just downloading a legal linux distro, his connection may be throttled to few kbps if the ISP sees a specific threshold met based on cumulative P2P usage).
Hope IDA will look in to this ( I wish together with IPv6) in the near future.
The surprising part is the date of release in in 2009 which means Canadians have the regulation developed almost a good one and half year back. In summary,
* ITMP (Internet traffic management practices) should be transparent when employed
* Overall ISP's should invest in network to avoid congestion. However they can implement certain ITMP to manage at certain points.
* When they are employed they MUST be designed to address a DEFINED need and nothing more.
* Applicable to Mobile broadband.
If I've to compare this to our current situation in Singapore, I've very little positive words to mention. Today we've very 'generic' definitions on what will be controlled/blocked/throttled and at what times. Also the impact to individual customer is not clearly communicated (ISP's say that they throttle to certain % out of their capacity. So if one customer is just downloading a legal linux distro, his connection may be throttled to few kbps if the ISP sees a specific threshold met based on cumulative P2P usage).
Hope IDA will look in to this ( I wish together with IPv6) in the near future.
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