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Re: CRTC rules on Traffic Management Practices
- From: Joe Abley
- Date: Wed Oct 21 13:09:28 2009
On 2009-10-21, at 12:14, Joe Abley wrote:
On 2009-10-21, at 12:03, Michael Peddemors wrote:
The email marketing lobby already got the legislation watered down
on the spam
front, but does this in essence say that ISP's are no longer
allowed to block
email content, viruses et al?
No more null-routing targets in your own network as a DDoS
mitigation technique?
Some better-informed person dropped me a note off-list, pointing me to
the following. On the face of it it seems like consideration for this
aspect has already been incorporated into the ruling.
ITMPs used for network security or employed temporarily to protect
network integrity
44.
The Commission notes that Canadian ISPs have used certain ITMPs
for the purposes of network security and integrity. Specifically,
these
ITMPs have been employed to protect users from network threats such
as
malicious software, spam, and distribution of illicit materials. In
the
Commission's view, such activities are unlikely to trigger
complaints or
concerns under the Act and are a necessary part of an ISP's network
operations.
45.
The Commission is therefore not addressing, in this decision,
ITMPs used only for the purpose of network security, nor those
employed
temporarily9 to address unpredictable traffic events (e.g. traffic
surges due to global events and failures on part of an ISP's
network) in
order to protect network integrity.
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