<story><title>ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation</title><url>http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_item.aspx?isn=7082</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>Keep in mind that this DPI system, besides making it easier to  monitor people&apos;s communications and even censor them, would also make it very easy for them to identify the type of traffic that goes through the pipes, so they can know exactly how to charge it differently, which brings us to another one of ITU&apos;s proposals, which is to kill net neutrality and charge for &quot;premium services&quot; like watching Youtube, or using other type of P2P traffic (Skype, WebRTC, torrents, etc):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/proposal-for-ict-and-internet-ecosystem-setting-new-rules-on-trade-order/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/proposal-for-ict-and-i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They want to do this, they say, to help &quot;grow the Internet&quot; (hasn&apos;t the Internet grown fast enough without their help in the past 20 years?), despite the fact that evidence suggests that the sender-pays system would &lt;i&gt;slow down&lt;/i&gt; the growth of the Internet, not make it any faster (research paper):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mercatus.org/publication/do-high-international-telecom-rates-buy-telecom-sector-growth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mercatus.org/publication/do-high-international-teleco...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation</title><url>http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_item.aspx?isn=7082</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bstpierre</author><text>This is not worthy of &quot;the sky is falling&quot; levels of panic.&lt;p&gt;My experience with standardization efforts is that they generally run &lt;i&gt;well behind&lt;/i&gt; the technology innovators. DPI has been around for a while. A DPI standard (or series of standards) out of the ITU will simply make public the baseline expectations of vendors and users of DPI systems.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, CALEA has been on the books for over 15 years, and that is the kind of thing to watch out for -- it &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; mandate features that provide snooping to the government on demand.&lt;p&gt;(Speaking as someone who has implemented [shallow] inspection/filtering and CALEA-type features on comms equipment for markets both in and outside of the US.)</text></comment>