A little more on Canadian neutrality

Another Canadian net neutrality site has opened up. This one is whatisnetneutrality.ca. As its name says, it gives a definition of net neutrality and also examples of where it’s being flouted. They have a blog and a list of other resources. The examples page I find most valuable even if I don’t agree with all of them.

I don’t like the example of Rogers’s BitTorrent packet shaping since that’s protocol based bandwidth partitioning and doesn’t discriminate based on the source. My torrented podcast downloads did suck as much as my buddy’s South Park downloads (and that’s why I left Rogers). Still, Rogers should be much more open about how and where they shape their traffic. Matt Roberts has a good explanation on why some traffic shaping is necessary and what net neutrality isn’t.