[LINK] UN's Internet Hijack ...

[Glen Turner]

> Russia and Iran propose new rules to measure Internet traffic
> along national borders and bill the originator of the traffic,
> as with international phone calls. That would result in new
> fees to local governments and less access to traffic from
> U.S. "originating" companies such as Google, Facebook and
> Apple. A similar idea has the support of European
> telecommunications companies, even though the Internet's
> global packet switching makes national tolls an anachronistic
> idea.

Why is ending the US free ride on international capacity with the
US a bad idea?

Yes the proposal is stupid. But that doesn't mean that all of
the measures within the proposal are.

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Glen Turner   www.gdt.id.au/~gdt