[81740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jun 28 17:28:04 2005
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050628.130656.28900.265567@webmail15.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 28 Jun 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?"
Its obvious Mr. Pulver doesn't operate a network.
It may be a good policy to generate interest in conferences to hear
speakers talk on panels about the potential horrible things. But
even a trivil amount of research (or Google if you consider that
research) would reveal the answer to his question "Why not?"
