[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[William Drake]

On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:21 PM, McTim wrote:

> 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.

Right, so it was a typo, should have been "your customer downloading a huge file and having a foreign provider pay you".  Just checking. And yes, apparently some providers can imagine that…in their most blissful dreams.

BD
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