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Many of the parties submitting comments<\/a> in the CRTC’s network management proceeding have looked at flow control and suggested that this results in a form of control of the content of the telecommunications, in contravention of S.36 of the Telecom Act.<\/p>\n

The Open Internet Coalition parses the language of that section, word for word – even looking at the French language version of the section to confirm its interpretation of the meaning.<\/p>\n

Some of the parties suggest that delaying the completion of a file transfer, such as a movie could inhibit the use of the file for the intended purpose, such as entertainment for that evening.<\/p>\n

Let’s look back to the old days of circuit switched telephonic voice communications to examine a metaphor for which S.36 also applied.<\/p>\n

After all, the section was written in the predominantly voice pre-internet era.<\/p>\n

Let me take you back to a time not so long ago…<\/p>\n

Active network management was required to handle voice network congestion. Whether it was a weather related event, Mothers’ Day or other peak times, at times, the network could not handle the full load. Certain applications, such as radio station contest lines, would get choked during peak traffic loads.<\/p>\n

Not all Mothers’ Day long distance calls got through. Sometimes, a percentage of capacity was reserved for other applications or users. Some callers experienced constrained capacity to allow incoming overseas calls to get through.<\/p>\n

Various techniques would be employed to manage the traffic – some of them invoked on the fly – responding to conditions the best way the industry could. In some cases, no matter how many times you dialled the numbers you just couldn’t get through to Mom on Mothers’ Day. [As an aside, I remember that a colleague of mine – here is my shout out to you, Corrie – was the voice of the Windsor toll switch Mothers’ Day congestion announcement. She had wanted to say “For all of you who couldn’t be bothered to stay in touch all year long, shame on you…”<\/span>]<\/p>\n

When you couldn’t get through on Mothers’ Day, the meaning of your call the next week just wasn’t the same, but I don’t recall people arguing that this was a violation of S.36. A Mothers’ Day call on the following Monday is no longer a Mothers’ Day call.<\/p>\n

There was no control of the content of your message to mom. No knowledge of what you wanted to say. No invasion of privacy. Simple re-prioritization of certain traffic because the network just couldn’t handle all of the offered load. And this was in the days of fully regulated monopoly telcos. No competitive long distance choice. No wireless alternatives. Our only competition came from Hallmark and the Post Office.<\/p>\n

Maximizing utility of the network.<\/p>\n

Skimming through the submissions, I enjoyed reading the views of some of the academics who suggest that over-provisioning is more effective than QOS or prioritizing certain types of traffic over others. Who do they think is going to pay for this over-provisioning?<\/p>\n

We’ll have more to say about the submissions in the coming days.<\/p>\n

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Many of the parties submitting comments in the CRTC’s network management proceeding have looked at flow control and suggested that this results in a form of control of the content of the telecommunications, in contravention of S.36 of the Telecom Act. The Open Internet Coalition parses the language of that section, word for word – …<\/p>\n

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