RE: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP

["Network.Security" <Network.Security () target com>]

Do you also offer premium "80" traffic?  Or guaranteed delivery of UDP?

Unbundled services will give the best price, and good service.  Maybe we
won't get the service anytime soon, but 2 out of the magical 3 isn't
bad.

bradley.swanson () target com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Adi Linden
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:46 AM
To: Bill Nash
Cc: Robert Blayzor; nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP


> If VOIP doesn't run on your network because you've oversold your 
> capacity, no amount of QoS is going to put the quality back into your
service.
> People will find better ISPs. If you deliberately set QoS to favor 
> your services over a competitor, whom your customers are also paying 
> for service, you'll be staring down prosecutors, at some point. It's 
> anti-competitive behavior, as you're taking deliberate actions to 
> degrade the service of a competitor, simply because you can.

Let's say I sell a premium VoIP offering for an additional fee on my
network. I apply QoS to deliver my VoIP offering to my customers but as
a result all other VoIP service is literally useless during heavy use
times you'd consider this anti-competitive behavior?

Adi