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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:35:31PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > -- "W. Mark Herrick, Jr." <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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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