[77949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Tue Feb 15 13:38:36 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:33:25 -0500
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Majdi Abbas <majdi@puck.nether.net>, Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050215182256.GA14113@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Anyone know which rural LECs might be involved?
I find it interesting that it isnt an MSO or RBOC doing the blocking -
perhaps the greater lawyer:engineer ratio at those organizations prevents
it?
The other interesting aspect is that there seems to be a bit of a
persecution complex on the part of some VoIP providers. Of course, even
paranoids have enemies, as they say :)
--
Daniel Golding
Network and Telecommunications Strategies
Burton Group
On 2/15/05 1:22 PM, "Majdi Abbas" <majdi@puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
> 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
