But... this bit.
> ... [JL] This is our web notification system, documented in RFC 6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108, which has been in place for many years now. ...
Oh, interesting, what Internet technology are they using?
> "RFC 6108: Comcast's Web Notification System Design"
> February 2011
Cue jawdrop. My instinctive response was to WAT and think "this is not what RFCs were for..."
But then I read this part,
> Status of This Memo
> This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
> This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; ...
Hmm.
Reading through, this outlines a way to avoid using deep packet inspection by using Squid and Tomcat instead.
Initially when I read this my brain was sort of going in the direction of "this kind of thing is where the net neutrality repeal thing started..." but now I've spent a bit of time reading it I don't actually think my snap response was particularly on point.
This is a bit of a stream-of-consciousness but I wanted to draw attention to that RFC.