The cable giant and the peer-to-peer innovator whose conflict triggered a renewed debate over Net Neutrality have announced that they will work together now, or at least adjust some of their rhetoric. The agreement between Comcast and BitTorrent, Inc., which is designed to make sure BitTorrent traffic runs more smoothly on its network, comes in the wake of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into Comcast's traffic management.

One of the first tangible results will be the end of Comcast's current practice of using forged TCP reset packets to hinder BitTorrent uploads by its customers. Instead, the company will use a platform-agnostic technique that may ultimately slow down P2P traffic from its heaviest users.

"This means that we will have to rapidly reconfigure our network management systems, but the outcome will be a traffic management technique that is more appropriate for today's emerging Internet trends," said Comcast CTO Tony Werner in a statement. "We have been discussing this migration and its effects with leaders in the Internet community for the last several months, and we will refine, adjust, and publish the technique based upon feedback and initial trial results."

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