[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 17.06.12 04:40, Lee W McKnight wrote:
> Now to our present concerns: ITU actions can indeed legitimate actions 
> which I would argue are not in the interests of a nation's citizens, 
> but may be in the interests of a state ministry of telecoms, and/or a 
> national telecom provider. Which is reason enough to remain - 
> observant - of what WCIT is up to, in all areas.

Whose concerns are almost guaranteed to represent private commercial 
"get rich" interests.

History has it and I can certainly confirm observing it, that often the 
state owned telecom business is used to subsidize political parties, for 
such businesses often have extremely fuzzy accounting and very high 
margins -- and, for the most part steady cash flow guaranteed to last 
(with the help of ITU and various arrangements).

In most cases, you will hear the claim "we do this in the name of the 
people", which should be in fact translated as "look, we promised those 
people who put us in power, that they are going to get free ride. we do 
it, no matter what".

There are suggestions that the ITU is a "better" fit for the governance 
of Internet. Because, as they claim, the ITU has well-organized and 
disciplined resolution system. But, let me ask you: do you consider some 
well-organized army better suited to manage your country, by occupying 
it? (of course, this happens, all of the time, even today)

The concept, that ITU could bring the "sender pays" accounting mechanism 
to Internet is absurd. Yet more absurd is the concept that ITU could 
enforce bilateral interconnection arrangements for IP traffic. Remember, 
this is precisely what killed X.400 when it saw the (primitive at the 
time) competition by Internet-based e-mail (UUCP, SMTP, ...).
Imagine, downloading huge file and having your provider pay you, because 
they sent your way more IP packets that you sent back? :)

Daniel
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