Comcast to Create a "P2P bill of rights and responsibilities"

Comcast announced on Tuesday its partnership with Pando Networks to create a "P2P bill of rights and responsibilities" as they called it. This P2P Bill of Rights aims at file-sharing networks, Internet service providers, and others. Its development is was much speeded up by the largest U.S. cable operator as it still engaged in recovering image from those past attempts to block its users from accessing P2P traffic like BitTorrent.

Comcast and Pando have merged and are now preparing to set the rules together with specialists in the industry and also with a number of P2P companies and Internet service providers on the rules.

The P2P Bill of Rights will be very clear on how users are allowed and expected to use P2P programs, and how ISP are required to handle the file-sharing clients on their network.

Comcast and Pando will be conducting tests on how file-sharing application run on other ISP networks, including cable, DSL, fiber and wireless and make estimation regarding performance, distance, speed, and geography and bandwidth consumption.

Tony Werner, Comcast CTO declared that “We hope to get other industry experts, ISPs and P2P companies together this spring and publish the P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities later this year.”