The DCIA is helping Comcast and Pando with the “P2P Bill of Rights”

Back in April we informed you that Comcast and Pando Networks were planning to create a “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities”. The first step they would take (as announced) was a test of Pando’s Network Aware P2P technology on Comcast’s network. The purpose of the test would be the gathering of data by Comcast that would allow it transfer to a protocol-agnostic network by the end of the year. Before this announcement Comcast had made another one about its future collaboration with P2P company BitTorrent to find more efficient solutions to “issues associated with rich media content and network capacity management.”

Now, back to the “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities”, the DCIA stepped in to help the ongoing process that aims at solving the matters of capacity and network management that according to some are the result of excessive use of P2P networks to download video and other large files (most of the pirated).

StreamingMedia reports that Comcast director of corporate communications Charlie Douglas, expressed the company’s wish to collaborate with an impressive number of ISPs, P2P companies, content providers, and others to establish a set of best practices and rights that will make it easier for the industry to address these and other issues that P2P applications account for.

Douglas made no specific remarks regarding what this bill will look like considering that at this point it’s important that a channel of communication has been reached.

In his turn DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty announced the company’s intention to draw other companies into this group that will come up with the bill with the occasion of the P2P Media Summit, planned for May 5 in Los Angeles.