Bob, You might try NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) for answers to these questions. I'm sure those guys can point you to the documentation you need. www.nanog.org Clarke ----- Original Message ----- From: RL 'Bob' Morgan <bob@bobmorgan.org> To: IETF <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: residential ISP "technical best practices" ? > > Sorry for this somewhat off-topic question, but I think this issue is at > least vaguely related to Internet engineering. > > I suspect that my colleagues and I are not the only ones viewing with > alarm various practices of ISPs serving residential users that generally > conflict with the traditional openness and neutrality of Internet > infrastructure. We started to put together a list of > must/should/shouldn't/mustn't in terms of ISP technical practices, along > the lines of: > > principal purpose is transporting packets expeditiously > > should not constrain customer use of network, except to limit malicious > or illegal use > > shouldn't block ports except with permission, or to stop imminent attack > > should support multicast and IPv6 > > should not either require or prohibit NAT or VPN use > > etc, for potential use as criteria against which local ISP behavior could > be judged (in the case of regulated monopolies in particular). So the > questions are: > > * does anyone know of such a set of recommendations already written > down somewhere? > > * are there discussion forums or other venues where people are working > on this kind of thing? > > Far be it from me to try to constrain the behavior of participants on this > list, but let me suggest that discussion of the technical merits of the > above points or the general wisdom of this effort is probably not > appropriate for the IETF list ... > > Thanks, > > - RL "Bob" > >