[asterisk-biz] Iptables rule help

[Mike Hammett]

I thought some ISPs got fined for blocking VoIP traffic.


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Jerris 
  To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
  Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:09 PM
  Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Iptables rule help


  Legal or not ( it is not federally illegal at this point, it may be in some states ) isp's in the USA most definitely do block and degrade sip traffic.

   

  This is a good point to note for those in the US, the telecom bill is still stuck in conference committee, time to call your senators and congressmen and tell them how important it is to have net neutrality legislation included in that bill.

   

  The key players in Washington are:

  Two committees have primary jurisdiction over media policy and will write the first drafts of any new Telecom Act: the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the Senate Committee on Comerce, Science and Transportation.

  Key members shaping the Telecom Act in the House include Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas), ranking member Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), Telecommunications and Internet Subcomittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

  In the Senate, any telecom legislation must cross the desk of Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). The ranking Democrat is Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). Other Senators likely involved in drafting the new Telecom Act will include Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).

  (this information extracted from: http://www.freepress.net/telecom/=players#Congress)

  Much of this can and will change in January with the entrance of the democratic control of the house and senate, it is still unclear if this will or will not get resolved before then.

  Some links for your reading pleasure:

   

  http://www.freepress.net/telecom/

  http://saveaccess.org/node/96

  http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/1882

   

   

  Mike

   

   


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  From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
  Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:28 PM
  To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
  Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Iptables rule help

   

  Not a technical answer, but what country are you in?  Your ISP can't block SIP in the USA.

   

   



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