Re: [DLC] Community Broadband in North Carolina

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:55:46AM -0500, Isaias Sifuentes wrote:
> This reminds me of how major ISP's have contractual terms under which
> you cannot host your own services. While I understand an ISP's need to
> control the traffic of its own network, they are excersizing quite a
> bit of liberty/latitude to restrict the terms of service, in my humble

It might be useful to refer to their service using easy and well
understood terms.

  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4084>

Unfortunately the definitions are not that great, but it is a start.
For instance, judging by your description, you may have something
less than "Full Internet Connectivity".  In DSL the upstream rate
is often asymmetrical for technical reasons, but for other systems
it is as you might suspect, often to encourage a "Client only, public
address" service.

A low-tech, easy and useful project for DLC's next meeting might be to
create a "Chicago ISP Connectivity Buyer's Guide".  You could probably
start with a lot of material from a place like dslreports.com.  One of
the options could be to say something about the ISP's service class
per the definition of "Full Internet Connectivity" or not as defined
by RFC 4084.

Probably most all home ISPs are not "Full Internet Connectivity".  I
am somewhat familiar with RCN's service and I would argue they don't
provide that service.  On the other hand, another ISP I'm familiar
with, Speakeasy, does.

Not sure I'll be around, but I'd be happy to help do this at a future
meeting to get things started if someone else will run with it.

John
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