--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, and I think the distinction is pertinent > to this discussion, > if the car has no seatbelts, you can drive it just > fine -- as long as > it came that way. You can't *sell* a car without > seatbelts, anymore. That may be the rule in Florida, but in DC, MD, and UT (the states in which I've lived in the past 2 decades), you can be be ticketed if you are driving a car and not wearing a seatbelt. To make this a little bit more relevant to our VoIP/911 discussion, would we allow a startup car company to sell something which looked like a seatbelt, but was not crash rated above 5 mph? No, of course we wouldn't. Would that be anticompetitive? No, it just means that to be a startup car company, you have to meet the same safety standards as the existing car companies. If we want to take the analogy away from something which is a direct safety issue, the exact same argument applies to emissions standards. They're "standard" for a reason: they apply to everyone, and every car maker must comply. (SUVs are classified as trucks, and comply with the truck rules). Why would these arguments not apply to VoIP? David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest