> > Exactly correct. The number one priority, which trumps all others, > > is making the abuse stop. Yes, there are many other things that > can > > and should be done, but that's the first one. > > Stopping the abuse is fine, but cutting service to the point that a > family > using VOIP only for their phone service can't call 911 and several > children > burn to death could bring all sorts of undesirable regulation let > alone the > bad press and legal expenses.
As far as the Ducth situation with one of the largest providers (KPN) goes this is solved by using a seperate VLAN for VOIP traffic. Only the data VLAN is being "blocked" or actually policy routed towards a walled garden in which users are able to clean themselves up. -- Nils Kolstein SSCPlus