Comcast Corp. and Pando Networks, Inc., have announced plans for a voluntary industry effort to develop a peer-to-peer (P2P) "bill of rights and responsibilities" (BRR) for users and Internet service providers (ISPs), eliciting skepticism from network neutrality supporters In an April 15 announcement, Comcast and Pando said they planned to work with "industry experts, other ISPs and P2P companies, content providers, and others to set a framework for the BRR that can serve as a best practice. The purpose would be to clarify what choices and controls consumers should have when using P2P applications as well as what processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks."
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