[Asterisk-Users] OT: Please comment on Dvorak's troll

[MF Hulber]

Unfortunately I believe there is a lot of truth to it.  The speed in 
which 911 legislation took effect is no coincidence and you don't see 
the big telcos complaining about it.  He's right about the price issue 
too.  Do you see how much big providers charge for VoIP service?

MARK.

Colin Anderson wrote:

>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1812887,00.asp
>
>Specifically, his assertion that ISP's would sniff traffic and block, say,
>the SIP port. You could play wack-a-mole with port numbers, no? 
>
>Also a community based, Freenet style of encryption implementation for
>"free" VoIP traffic would address this issue. 
>
>I raise this to the list because I'm sure there's a grain of truth in what
>he's saying. ILEC's would be crazy to not consider this kind of lock in,
>since it's pretty obvious that packet voice networks are going to supplant
>circuit networks completely in, say, 20 years. Maybe sooner. 
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