Q&A with Comcast's Joe Waz About BitTorrent Detente

By Declan McCullagh
CNet

BitTorrent and Comcast have declared a detente in a Net Neutrality cold war that has drawn a slew of angry protests and already ended up before the Federal Communications Commission. But details are still unclear. Comcast will adopt a "capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic," and BitTorrent plans to work with Internet service providers, other technology companies, and the Internet Engineering Task Force to develop ways to optimize file swapping on networks like Comcast's.

To try to figure out what exactly Comcast is planning to do later this year as its part of this detente, I sat down with Comcast's Joe Waz, who is the senior vice president for external affairs and the company's public policy counsel. (Both of us happened to be here at a technology policy conference; I'm scheduled to do an onstage interview of Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's president and co-founder, as part of the conference on Thursday afternoon.)

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