[78483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Fri Mar 4 18:04:00 2005
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:03:31 -0600
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050304224550.GA20663@netbsd.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
So who's going to be the IP cop that decided which actions are
anti-competitive and which actions are 'customer care'?
How many service providers oversubscribe their internet feed. Just because
the advertisement says 384k upstream and 2Mbps downstream doesn't mean
this is a guaranteed rate available 24x7 to any destination. In most cases
there is some bandwidth management box somewhere that provides a fair
share of bandwidth to all of the ISPs customers. I am really curious at
which point shaping of traffic is viewed as anti-competitive...
Adi
