On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
If someone want to be insane - allow him to do it; what's the problem? Is this question coming from Panamian government? -:)
when you have to comply with some insane gov't ruling at penalty of legal (possibly felony type actions) you will also squeal like the virtual pig...
This is internet - if I have 10 Mbit connection and 100msec latency, I can use it for Voice, no way to block me; if it is 19200bits/second and 2 second latency, I can not. That's all. Other methods can provide temporary reliefe only.
true, this was the arguement put forth to the folks at the time, they still insisted on their backwards, telco-minded thinking... Fortunately after a few months they saw the light and removed the requirement.
Joe might not be that lucky, or he might be able to show precedent to others about why it's bad to try to block the voip.
Chris: Kindly permit me to make one brief related comment regarding your observations. Broadly, whether it is social/economic/governmental policy **INSERT your favourite mandate here** [CALEA and such, to content censoring] that require carriers/providers to make operational adjustments, a catalogue of the ramifications, and in the large - the economic/performance impact [among other effects] on services and subscribers does deserve greater perlustration. Best, Robert. -------