I know this is a 'techies list' and therefore the urge to turn each
discussion into one about bits & bytes is overwhelming, but I think
the important issues are different. For instance:
1) Surely this is not the last time ISPs will be required to block
access to a site. That is, what next, a ban on accessing
news.bbc.co.uk? And then after that a ban on receiving certain kinds
of email. Is this not the thin end of the wedge? It is a rather dark
tunnel to find oneself peering into.
2) Whatever the real technicalities, the ability to block certain
sites creates the impression to the customer that his/her Internet
activities are monitored. Which surely is not an impression any ISP
would like to create.
3) And then there is the deafening silence that has accompanied this
action. Almost always a bad sign.
There are many such questions that could be asked. Many. And many
lessons from elsewhere. But I guess while we wait for answers, we'll
just keep doing http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+surfing and
making use of whatever that brings!
On Feb 14, 2006, at 15:59, Mark Tinka wrote:
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:44, Michael Mukasa wrote:
From a technical standpoint this is one of the main
reasons fibre will never
completely replace VSAT. With fibre it would be very
easy to impose
censorship by controlling access to the international
bandwidth, but this is
obviously not the case with a proliferation of VSATs.
Not really - with the way the fibre is meant to run,
circuit provisioning and management will be handled by
the telco(s), but IP provisioning will be done by the
ISP's trying to connect at either end.
This is how SAT-3 works down south. Telkom SA manages the
circuit, but IP service is not handled by them. Unless
the only way to go onto fibre is to also get IP services
from local telcos, which in my books, is not worth the
switch.
Mark.
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