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

FCC wants to know: Is degrading P2P traffic 'reasonable'?

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Title:FCC wants to know: Is degrading P2P traffic 'reasonable'? (ID: CSD5319)
Author(s):Anne Broache (CNET News.com)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (01/15/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

"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 "

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Colleges serious about dealing with copyright, P2P issues

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Title:Colleges serious about dealing with copyright, P2P issues (ID: CSD5260)
Author(s):Eric Bangeman (Ars Technica, LLC)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (12/05/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

"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."

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Comcast Blockage of BitTorrent 101

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Title:Comcast Blockage of BitTorrent 101 (ID: CSD5205)
Source:Free Press
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (10/23/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

"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."

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Peer-to-Peer Computing: Meeting the P2P Challenge

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Title:Peer-to-Peer Computing: Meeting the P2P Challenge (ID: CSD3785)
Author(s):Matthew Villano
Source:Campus Technology
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:"Napster may be old news, but new file-sharing woes are confounding campus technologists. Help is on the way if you know where to find it."
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P2P caching: Unsafe at any speed?

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Title:P2P caching: Unsafe at any speed? (ID: CSD2935)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Peer-to-peer traffic is one of the biggest headaches for Internet service providers, but now a Swedish company says it has developed technology that can help handle the load.
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Lighting Up 'Dark Fiber': Collapse of telecommunications companies gives colleges rare, cheap opportunity to own networks

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Title:Lighting Up 'Dark Fiber': Collapse of telecommunications companies gives colleges rare, cheap opportunity to own networks (ID: CSD2740)
Author(s):Florence Olsen (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The recent collapse of many telecommunications companies has spawned fire sales of unused fiber-optic capacity -- and some colleges are rushing to snap up the bargains.
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The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03)Proceedings

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Title:The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03)Proceedings (ID: CSD2737)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports, Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:The goal of this workshop is to examine peer-to-peer technologies, applications and systems, and also to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. In the context of this workshop, peer-to-peer systems are characterized as being decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems, in which all or most communication is symmetric. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-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

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New Cornell U. System Will Meter Network Use and Charge for 'Extreme' Amounts

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Title:New Cornell U. System Will Meter Network Use and Charge for 'Extreme' Amounts (ID: CSD2729)
Author(s):Florence Olsen (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Cornell University officials have developed a new "pay by the drink" billing system that will charge students and employees incrementally for Internet use as a way of controlling what officials call "irrational consumption" of bandwidth.
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