[81735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W. Mark Herrick, Jr.)
Tue Jun 28 16:15:19 2005
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:14:18 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "W. Mark Herrick, Jr." <mark.herrick@adelphia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050628.130656.28900.265567@webmail15.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 02:06 PM 6/28/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>Jeff Pulver makes a good point in a Forbes article
>when he says "I believe it's a matter of when, not
>if" providers start blocking VoIP traffic from
>competitors across their own infrastructure, especially
>on the heels of the Brand X SCOTUS ruling.
>
>"If I'm a service provider offering my own voice
>over broadband offering, and I've got the ability
>to block my competition, why not?"
>
>http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/28/voip-cable-blocked-cx_de_0628voip.html
>
>- ferg
Harold Willison, my peer and Director of HSI Transport, Design, and
Engineering at Adelphia, explains exactly why that would not be a fantastic
idea, in the following article:
http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/0605/0605_internetprotocol.htm
-MH
W. Mark Herrick, Jr.
Director - Data and Network Security - Adelphia Communications
5619 DTC Parkway, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
