Let's stop ISPs looking at IP addresses and other fantasies...
"But headers contain IP addresses, which may or may not be personal information which ISP's aren't supposed to look at."
Isn't it a trifle difficult for an ISP to route a packet with looking at the IP addresses?
Of course the issue is what such information can reasonably be used for, not whether it can be looked at. Clearly the header contents have to be looked at for reasons of routing, traffic balancing, intrusion detection, general traffic management, capacity planning, service management and dozens of other legitimate purposes.
The whole net neutrality debate is characterised by the use of emotive terms playing to the audience and precious little to do with the real technical issues of making efficient and reliable uses of networks.
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Let's stop ISPs looking at IP addresses and other fantasies...
"But headers contain IP addresses, which may or may not be personal information which ISP's aren't supposed to look at."
Isn't it a trifle difficult for an ISP to route a packet with looking at the IP addresses?
Of course the issue is what such information can reasonably be used for, not whether it can be looked at. Clearly the header contents have to be looked at for reasons of routing, traffic balancing, intrusion detection, general traffic management, capacity planning, service management and dozens of other legitimate purposes.
The whole net neutrality debate is characterised by the use of emotive terms playing to the audience and precious little to do with the real technical issues of making efficient and reliable uses of networks.