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It's Official: Sen. Ted Stevens Has No Idea How The Internet Works
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:12:53 GMT
Un-freekin'-believable. And this is the guy spear-heading the new telecom reform legislation? You've got to read/hear this to believe it. Ryan Singel writes over on 27B Stroke 6: [snip] The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works. [snip] I'm simply... dumbfounded. More here: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1512499 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- It's Official: Sen. Ted Stevens Has No Idea How The Internet Works Fergie (Jun 29)
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- Re: It's Official: Sen. Ted Stevens Has No Idea How The Internet Works Dude VanWinkle (Jun 30)
- Re: It's Official: Sen. Ted Stevens Has No Idea How The Internet Works Nick FitzGerald (Jun 29)