At 12:47 PM 3/9/96, Mutant Rob wrote:
Yes... but the Internet is not like HAM radio. The FCC has no jurisdiction outside the US, and it would cause various problems for them to try to regulate the use of IPhone or how ISPs operate.
Question of how practical enforcement would be haven't been big in a lot of the legislation we've seen coming out of various capitals, so I doubt the situation for bureaucratic rule-mongering would be much different. The WP article said that has ACTA has "asked the [FCC] to stop this kind of communications and study how to regulate it," probably--and not surprisingly --in that order. It looks like another case of trying to saddle ISPs with impossible enforcement burdens, though in this case one that a lot of ISPs might not mind so much, given the bandwidth that netphone usage eats up (cf. xs4all, I hear, has forbidden users to run CU-SeeMe). Q: Is it practically possible to find netphone traffic on a generic network at any level above the source and target addresses? Ted