Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
The Biggest Threat to the Internet By David Coursey November 3,
2005
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1881338,00.asp
an excerpt: No, Mr. Whitacre, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Vonage, and the
whole rest of the Internet isn't nuts, you are. Worse, you're the
nut who is running our country's largest telecom provider.
So IMO the story sounds scary on the surface, but I think if people
give this another look, it's just foolish saber rattling.
Here's the part I don't get: the ISPs benefit tremendously from not
knowing what the packets are, and where they're coming from. This
"ignorance" allows them a very powerful legal safe harbor.
The moment that they can demonstrate that they can pick out Google http
traffic, or Vonage VOIP traffic - they'll be sued and busted for also
carrying kiddie-porn packets and pirate audio/video packets.
So, totally silly stuff.
jh
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