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

[Michael Graves]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:17:20 -0600, 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. 

Actually, Bob Cringley, another pundit found on the PBS web site raised
this matter a few weeks ago. I suspect that IAX2 with some encryption
could port hop around and not be easily tracked as VOIP traffic. But in
any case there has to be some regulatory stance on what is permitted
over a network. Certainly there are non-telco carriers like Covad, whom
I use, that would not concern themselves about the nature of the
traffic.

Michael

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