17 May, 2012 Last updated 10 hours 35 minutes ago

Whitelisting, an ISP solution to throttling, may conflict with net neutrality rules

“Whitelisting,” a new solution that ISPs are using to avoid the problem of mistakenly throttled Internet applications, may not conform with the CRTC's telecom rules, a Canadian expert on Internet traffic management techniques says.

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