[77946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi Abbas)
Tue Feb 15 13:23:24 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:22:56 -0800
From: Majdi Abbas <majdi@puck.nether.net>
To: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0502151150170.308@citabria>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:53:59AM -0600, Adi Linden wrote:
> How is this any different then blocking port 25 or managing the bandwidth
> certain applications use.
If the article is correct, and the ISP involved is also a LEC, then
it would be pretty clearly anticompetitive, and the LECs have some legal
obligations to provide access to their customers.
I don't think any such restriction would also apply to a
normal ISP, but that could change. We'll see.
--msa
