Re: Brand X decision could mean widespread VoIP blocking
I tend to agree with Mr. Willison. ;-) - ferg -- "W. Mark Herrick, Jr." <mark.herrick@adelphia.com> 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_0628voi...
- 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
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:35:31PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
-- "W. Mark Herrick, Jr." <mark.herrick@adelphia.com> 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?"
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
I tend to agree with Mr. Willison. ;-)
Smartalec. :-) Willison correctly takes both sides of the issue, which, as usual, is an elephant: how you see it depends on where you stand. I thought, as you did, Ferg, that he did a good job illuminating what the sides are, and how to best interact with all of them: Don't block unless you have to to be secure; work with the providers to nudge their protocols into the most easily securable form. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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