[liberationtech] Computer Networks - Project Idea

[Thomas Jones]

Not to go all Tim Wu on the listserv or anything, but personally I would recommend a project centered around detecting throttling and QoS discrepancies within service providers - comparative analysis to determine mistreatment of identical services offered by both the incumbent service provider and a 3rd party vendor. Centralize the information in a repository, and offer a web based querying method for the mass public to identify 3rd party service vs service provider treatment of application service traffic. 

Think of it as creating a public watchdog to keep ISPs honest in their horizontal markets, compounded with the premise of the governments recent national broadband study.

In any event, that kind of project should keep you busy for a while...


Thomas Jones
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On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:33 PM, katmagic wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:03:01 -0400
> Steve Jakson <stjak1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I am a Graduate Student in Computer Science and I am supposed to do a
>> Master’s Project in Computer Networks. Can someone suggest me some
>> idea so that I can develop and implement that idea and complete my
>> project. At the same time I want to be part of your open source
>> projects. So can you guys suggest me a project where it is mutually
>> helpful to both of us.
>> Waiting for your reply.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Steve
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