Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Bandwidth Management

"As foreshadowed at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, federal regulators this week took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers, such as Comcast, manage peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on their networks "

"If you were responsible for a college's network and were faced with infringement notices from the recording and motion picture industries, how would you handle them? That's the question Elliot Kendall, network security architect at Brandeis University, faced. He decided to ask his peers how they handled P2P traffic on campus networks, as well as DMCA takedown notices and prelitigation settlement letters."

"According to an Oct. 19 article by the Associated Press, Comcast has been actively degrading and
blocking BitTorrent traffic, amounting to "the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S.
Internet service provider." This is the latest and most clear cut incident illustrating the need for "network
neutrality" principles for the Internet. This factsheet provides a technological backgrounder on what
Comcast is blocking and how the company does it."

-peer-to-peer applications and services
-peer-to-peer systems and infrastructures
-peer-to-peer algorithms
-security in peer-to-peer systems
-robustness in peer-to-peer systems
-anonymity and anti-censorship
-performance of peer-to-peer systems
-workload characterization for peer-to-peer systems