Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

[Phil Karn]

>Is making an SSL connection creating a VPN? It's really not much 
>different in an abstract sense. Most applications are using browsers 

I've been saying for some time that we need a IP-over-SSL tunneling
protocol standard. ISPs would *never* dare block TCP port 443, since
as we all know the only important Internet application is to let
people buy stuff online...

*Great* essay in today's NYT, by the way.

Phil