Re: It Continues...Sprint Is played the fool...
Hello everybody! I beleive we have a small problem here; Suggested reading are the rules and regulations for common carriers, and just let me make one example; Joe does not like the fact that I call him on the phone, so he calls my local phone operator and have them to block my phone for outgoing calls. My mother is about to die and she needs and ambulance, but the phone does not work. All ISP's should have as a policy to move packets, or for some atlest try to move packets as close they can to the destination. As soon as the ISP enforces an AUP, (wich might be for all good) they might be hold responsible for all traffic that traverses their infrstructure, and that's the end of the ISP's and the Internet. Joe (from my above exaple) has the right to refuce to terminate traffic from whoever he decides, so in this case, he could refuce to talk to my phone, or to my local phone oprator, or the long distance carrier of the local phone operator. Being the Police, is in any contry i knew a job for the Police! --Peter
Being the Police, is in any contry i knew a job for the Police!
Common carrier status makes things more interesting, I agree. However, there is ample precedent for cutting off someone's connection (within the contractual time limits) if they are harrassing others and making their provider look bad. (BBN had to cut Sanford Wallace off earlier.) I'm not a common carrier of course, or any other kind of carrier. But when one of my consulting clients spammed a few years back that was the instantaneous end of my consulting relationship with them. There is clean money to be had for honest work on the Internet. Sprint does not need to do business with spammers in order to do quite well.
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Paul A Vixie
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Peter Lothberg