[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[McTim]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:16 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
>
> 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? :)
>
>
> Is this a typo?  It's obviously not you that'd get paid.  They want foreign
> (US) ISPs and "OTT service providers" to pay them because you downloaded
> using their apparently scarce bandwidth.



I assumed Daniel was speaking from a providers (ISP) POV.



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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