NNSquad@May 3, 2009

Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 18:59:08 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Sprint may outsource network to Ericsson


Sprint may outsource network to Ericsson

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/05/03/business/business-us-sprint.html

--Lauren--

Sprintはどうなってしまうのか。

NNSquad@Apr 26, 2009

Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:25:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [ NNSquad ] nnsquad - filtering not only in asia
Hi,

more and more filtering is getting a topic in EU or other more
"democratic" regions than china & Co....

Now Germany signed a law
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/23/germany_image_law/

how will be the EU Region influenced? What do you think?
Will the big Filtering Areas work together or will there a competion
politic and the seems of code, products and methods be established?
sharing vs. competion market?

Hopefully getting some minds and new points to other lists about this...

ch

ドイツでもインターネット検閲法案が通った？
BigBrotherの支配するSFな世界に向かうのか？！

NNSquad@Apr 24, 2009

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Big boost for Aussie firewall

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/23/aussie_firewall_boost/

Big boost for Aussie firewall

The controversial Great Aussie Firewall got a big boost yesterday when
Australia's second largest ISP Optus agreed to join the pilot.

snip


近年、オーストラリアって中国と仲いいよね。
金盾をも真似るのかな？
2番目に大きいISPがそのプロジェクトに加わったとすると、確かに加速が付きそう。
やばい。

NNSquad@Apr 22, 2009

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:02:02 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Amazon launches HD video service


----- Forwarded message from "Amazon.com" -----

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:59:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Amazon.com"
Subject: Instant HD Is Here with Amazon Video On Demand


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----- End forwarded message -----


AmazonがHDクオリティのVideo On Demandサービスを開始らしい。
この動画を見ている人は下記の動画も見ています、とかリコメンドしてくれるのかな(笑)

NNSquad@Apr 16, 2009

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:06:56 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Bulletin: Time Warner Reportedly to "Shelve" Bandwidth Cap Plans


Bulletin: Time Warner Reportedly to "Shelve" Bandwidth Cap Plans

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000548.html


Greetings. In an extremely brief item that moved this afternoon, AP
has reported that "following mounting public and political outcry,"
Time Warner Cable is "shelving" plans for capped/metered Internet use.
( http://nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/16/business/AP-TEC-Metered-Internet.html )
The article also suggests that this "capitulation" bodes ill for
future efforts of this sort.

Obviously, there will be a great deal more to say about this story as
details become available, and the reactions of other ISPs who have
implemented or have been moving toward bandwidth caps (including
Comcast, AT&T, etc.) will be interesting to observe. The related
implications could potentially impact literally every aspect of
Internet use.

Will I need to revise "'Once Upon a Time' (Understanding Bandwidth
Caps)" ( http://www.nnsquad.org/bandwidth-caps.html ) to provide a
happy ending after all? It's still really too early to know. But
today's development is certainly quite fascinating.

There's an old slogan that goes "Power to the people!" Perhaps in the
context of the Internet, "Bandwidth for the people!" should be a new
rallying cry.

Stay tuned.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein


タイムワーナーは帯域制限を棚上げしたというメール。
やはり反対意見が多かったか。
日本ではぷららやIIJへの反対意見も多少はあったようだが、それほど問題にならなかった気がする。
違法P2Pが敵なうちに導入できたからね。
今は動画共有サイトだから・・・　これは大手を振っては制限できない。。。

NNSquad@Apr 15, 2009

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:26:46 -0400
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Bell Canada proposal to cap wholesale customers

Bell Canada has submitted a proposal to the CRTC to allow it to cap
bandwidth usage of wholesale customers (mostly independent ISPs). The
independent ISPs are concerned that this will essentially eliminate the
possibility of 'unlimited bandwidth' type offerings to their customers.

The submission from Bell Canada also comes at an interesting time when
the CRTC has recently allowed it to throttle wholesale customers for
'network management' purposes. In addition there are CRTC public
hearings scheduled in the next few months to investigate the general
issues relating to network management and throttling.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/14/bell-unlimited-download.ht
ml?ref=rss

Bell Canada has been struggling to be profitable over the last decade or
so - my guess is that this translates into a lack of investment in
infrastructure upgrades. Now it seems that they are trying to find any
means of avoiding spending the larger sums of money now required to
bring their networks to a standard that will support current Internet
usage patterns. There is also a clear anti-competitive aspect to the
impacts on wholesale customers where throttling and capping force
independent ISPs to limit their offerings to be similar to what Bell
Canada Internet Service already offers to it's residential customers.


ベル・カナダも帯域制限の提案を出してきました。
世界的な流れになるか。

NNSquad@Apr 10, 2009

From: Lauren Weinstein
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:41:00 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Big ISPs to Customers: Bend Over and Close Your Eyes


Big ISPs to Customers: Bend Over and Close Your Eyes

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000541.html


Greetings. It's no longer a matter of handwriting on the wall -- the
equivalents of big billboards and skywriting are now making it
abundantly clear what big telecom has in store for us, and Time
Warner's new bandwidth cap plans ( http://tinyurl.com/tw-caps ) are
but a mere taste of toadstools to come. No matter how creatively they
try to spin their press releases, telecom is taking the elevator to
profits, and subscribers are being left with -- that's right boys and
girls -- the shaft.

What we seem to be looking at here in the U.S. -- in direct contrast
to many other countries in the world -- is a race to the
*bottom*, with ISPs doing their damndest to chain up customers in
ways that will help assure preferential use of ISPs' own video and
other offerings, which themselves are typically free of all bandwidth
caps.

The apparent lack of capping plans so far where *effective*
competition is present (e.g. FiOS overbuilds) would seem to be about
as obvious of a smoking gun as Lt. Columbo himself would ever wish to
see. It's all about driving down demand for outside Internet services
and herding customers (with a cattle prod) into the walled gardens.

The vast variations in proposed caps between different service
providers are creating *exactly* the kind of situations that
telecom communications regulation could help avoid -- enormous
differences for customers based solely on where they happen to be
living.

Bandwidth caps are too important of a parameter, not just for usage
today but for what sorts of Internet innovation and usage we'll see
tomorrow, to be arbitrarily set and changed by ISPs in the current
extremely limited competition U.S. Internet environment.

It's well past time for Internet users from the size of Google down to
grandmothers in Ogden, Utah to start *demanding* effective
positive changes.

By the way, Time Warner in my neck of the woods has increased prices
on everything yet again this month, and their customer service reps
have become utterly uncooperative -- unless you'll go for a massive
up-sell. That's assuming you can understand what they're saying. The
TW Colorado Springs call center at least has clear connections. But
much of the time -- even during the day -- you can end up routed to a
call center in Argentina, apparently connected through a VoIP system
running at 110bps -- at least it sounds that way. The audio quality
is always so incredibly bad that one longs for two tin cans with a
string as an alternative. It's just another thorn to ramp up anger
through the roof. I'm told that a lot of customers complain about
this. But hey, when you own the balls and there's no referee you get
to play however you want, right?

Just like the banks who are now *massively* jacking up credit
card interest rates after getting vast government bailouts -- at a
time when many ordinary middle-class citizens can hardly keep the
lights lit and food on the table -- big telecom has us all in their
sights, just like deers in the crosshairs of a hunter's high-powered
rifle.

There's no polite way to say this: We are indeed getting
royally screwed.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com

タイムワーナーが始める帯域制限に関して。
日本でも色々議論がありましたね。

NNSquad@Apr 9, 2009

From: Lauren Weinstein
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:25:34 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] In Stunning Surprise, French Reject Oppressive Internet Law!


In Stunning Surprise, French Reject Oppressive Internet Law!

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000540.html


Greetings. To the shock of the legislation's supporters and
detractors alike, the horrendous and oppressive proposed "Three
Strikes" Internet law that I discussed yesterday
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000539.html ) has been soundly
rejected by the French national assembly, by a vote of 15 - 21
( http://www.laquadrature.net/en/hadopi-rejected-by-the-assembly ).

Since the vast majority of observers on both sides of this debate had
expected the legislation to be approved, the result is nothing short
of stunning, and calls into question the entire rationale of those who
would use intellectual property concerns as an excuse to trample upon
the basic liberties and rights of Internet users.

Whether the legislators who voted down the proposal did so out of
careful analysis, primal fear of political repercussions, or some
other combination of factors is currently unclear -- nor can France or
any other country assume that new attempts to trample basic concepts
of fairness won't reemerge repeatedly related to the Internet (or in
other aspects of our lives, for that matter).

But today at least is a good day for the Internet and its users.

Vive la France!

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein


フランス議会で大方の予想に反して「３ストライク」インターネット法が否決されたというニュース。
インターネットが主要インフラになりつつあり、影響力も大きいため、その他のインフラと
同じような権利の制限などが各国で議論されています。
その中でフランスは否決しました。(今後どうなるかわかりませんが)
その喜びは文末に表れています。"Vive la France!"

NNSquad@Apr 1, 2009

From: Lauren Weinstein
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:32 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Google Announces Merger with Major TV Networks



Google Announces Merger with Major TV Networks

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000531.html


[ Of possible interest ... -- Lauren ]

April 1, 2009

Google Announces Merger with Major TV Networks

Mountain View, CA (VTX) -- In a move sending shock waves throughout
the Internet and broadcasting worlds, Internet services giant Google
today announced a merger between Google and the four major U.S.
commercial television networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX) plus cable news
operations CNN and FOX News.

The new corporate name for the merged entity will be "Google."

In the first entry of the new official "Google TV Blog" that appeared
this morning, Google VP for Television Programming Quality and Viewer
Experience, Harvey Flint, noted that, "Google hopes to rapidly bring
the changes associated with our 'don't be evil' corporate philosophy
to these acquired properties, especially FOX News."

Among reported major changes already being planned for the broadcast
networks under the Google regime will be a requirement that commercial
breaks take place at exactly ten minute intervals, to allow for
dependable synchronization with Google's YouTube viewers.

Industry reaction to the announcement has been generally favorable.

Longtime broadcasting columnist Rhoda Grant of "Multitudinous Channel"
magazine commented that, "Considering how badly broadcasters have
screwed up by mishandling the Internet Revolution themselves, there's
no way that Google can possibly make things any worse. And besides, I
own Google stock."

There were some cautionary observers. Barney Blase, owner of a small
rural ISP in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, complained that, "All this
emphasis on video is ridiculous. There's nothing worthwhile that
can't be accomplished via dial-up acoustic modems and punched paper
tape."

Executives of the acquired broadcasting networks were unavailable for
comment, reportedly due to their attending of a hurriedly arranged
meeting to update their "LinkedIn" profiles.

VTX-2009-04-01 GOOG001

- - -

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein


エイプリルフールジョーク。

NANOG@Mar 2, 2009

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:26:06 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall
Subject: ADMIN: was Re: DPI or Flow Management
To: NANOG list
Message-ID:
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII


A reminder that political threads are prohibited from the mailing list
under the AUP.

Participants in the "DPI or Flow Management" might wish to move their
discussion to a more politically orientated forum such as the Network
Neutrality Squad mailing list:

http://www.nnsquad.org/

Simon Lyall
(on behalf of) NANOG Mailing List Committee.

NANOGではディープパケットインスペクションやフローマネージメントの議論はあまり好まれない感じ。
NNSquadという別MLを紹介される始末。
JANOGでは何回かプレゼンもあったくらいなのにね。
取り扱う内容が各国・各地域で違うのは仕方の無いこと。
#ということで以後NNSquadも追いかけることにします。