[Free-RTC] ITU & VoIP

[Daniel Pocock]

On 06/12/12 23:20, D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
> Just seen this link on twitter:
> 
> Leaked PDFs from the WCIT conference. Blocking P2P VoIP and deep packet inspection:
> 
> http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?06cf06a41804910e#jgwzgZDB1Hx7oKdxlqf0ss7VVciFy932YEfU3HM06SA=
> 
> If it doesn't work, try: http://t.co/fTB09Jwu
> 

The ITU gives a voice (if you'll excuse the pun) to every country, big
and small

Two things are re-assuring though:

- in many of the small countries that deploy such things universally,
Internet access is often just as cost effective by dedicated satellite
uplinks (and many corporate users and hotels purchase such links to go
directly to European ISPs)

- and the GDP of all those little countries that want these things,
summed together, is less than that of the US + EU combined, so it is
unlikely they have the influence to impose such things on industry

The very evolution of the Internet is itself evidence of the fact that
traditional ITU methods of doing things couldn't supply what the world needs

So in a system where 1 country = 1 vote, they can all band together and
vote for such policy, but they only succeed in making the ITU even more
irrelevant.