The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is attempting to take over where Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) and Pando Networks Inc. left off when it comes to developing business rules and practices for peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.

The DCIA has kicked off a P2P Best Practices initiative that "supersedes" a P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (BRR) project that Comcast and Pando unveiled in mid-April, and arrived amid a public firestorm about the MSO's network management practices and its delaying of some P2P traffic. Comcast is also in the process of migrating to a "protocol-agnostic" platform that won't discriminate against P2P.

The DCIA aims to broaden the scope of the original Comcast-Pando project to include other broadband ISPs, P2P companies, and content providers. Comcast and Pando are already on board with the new initiative, as are AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), and Kontiki , according to DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty.

Lafferty says DCIA will remain in heavy "recruitment mode" through May 20, when the initial semblance of a P2P Best Practices working group gets together to meet in New York alongside the Streaming Media East confab. The goal, he says, is to have a full working group formed by June, with the "deliverable" of those best practices salted away "well before the end of the year."

To read more about the project, some details about the other types of organizations DCIA is recruiting for the effort, and how the new project differs from the DCIA's high-profile P4P Working Group project, please check out the story at Cable Digital News.

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