[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[Roland Perry]

In message <4FDED02E.3030605 at digsys.bg>, at 09:52:30 on Mon, 18 Jun
2012, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> writes
>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.

This is the so called D.50 concept. It won't die - several of us had a
good try at putting it to sleep ten years ago, but the pressure needs
keeping up.

Here's one submission on why it's a bad thing, from the EU:

<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/internationalrel/doc
s/itu/ec_ond50.pdf>
-- 
Roland Perry

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