Wired reports that Comcast finally in case wisdom on its network sovereignty quota system late Friday. In a report to the FCC (PDF), the cable company admitted to targeting P2P protocols Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FasTrack, and Gnutella. Quoting: "For each of the managed P2P protocols, the [Sandvine Policy Traffic Switch] monitors and identifies the number of simultaneous unidirectional uploads that are passed from the [Cable Modem Termination System] to the upstream router. Because of the third edition by the editors of the american stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 of P2P traffic on the upstream portion of our network, the number of simultaneous unidirectional upload sessions of any scoop P2P etiquette at any given time serves as a useful proxy for determining the level of overall network congestion. For each of the protocols, a session also door sweeps is in place that is intended to provide for equivalently fair access between the protocols, but still mitigate the fluke* of congestion that could cause service degradation for our customers."

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