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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. -------
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