[51762] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCC & Internet phones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t byfield)
Sat Mar 9 14:35:33 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:28:29 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tbyfield@panix.com (t byfield)
At 12:47 PM 3/9/96, Mutant Rob wrote:
>Yes... but the Internet is not like HAM radio. The FCC has no
>jurisdiction outside the US, and it would cause various problems
>for them to try to regulate the use of IPhone or how ISPs operate.
Question of how practical enforcement would be haven't been big in a=
lot of the legislation we've seen coming out of various capitals, so I=
doubt the situation for bureaucratic rule-mongering would be much=
different. The WP article said that has ACTA has "asked the [FCC] to stop=
this kind of communications and study how to regulate it," probably--and=
not surprisingly --in that order.=20
It looks like another case of trying to saddle ISPs with impossible=
enforcement burdens, though in this case one that a lot of ISPs might not=
mind so much, given the bandwidth that netphone usage eats up (cf. xs4all,=
I hear, has forbidden users to run CU-SeeMe).
Q: Is it practically possible to find netphone traffic on a generic=
network at any level above the source and target addresses?=20
Ted
