We should suggest to the ITU to run the mail system, they are looking
desperately for their niche on the Internet... And they have all the knowledge
to deal with government international settlements, etc...
oh... wait.. wasn't it called x400? ;)
Also on settlements, you know there are companies, which business is to take
20% from all the money they recover from the telcos mis-billing you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Campbell" <doug(_dot_)campbell(_at_)craniumpro(_dot_)com>
To: asrg(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org
Sent: Saturday, 15 November, 2008 2:10:02 PM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [Asrg] The wonders of telephones and paper mail
Barry Shein said,
Well, once again, straw man alert.
Someone posits that it's impossible to set up and run a system based
on usage charging, asserted with nearly mathematical certainty.
An easy response is gosh, better tell that to all the postal and
telephone services as one example.
First of all, the PTSs have a monopoly in most places, and it's
inordinately expensive to break
into that monopoly situation. In the case of the postal service, it's
our government which has
the monopoly, and for many years the telephone companies had service
area monopolies.
In fact, most places still have cable service monopolies.
Port 25 has no such monopoly. We have a totally free market, whose
access is dictated
only by adherence to a standard protocol. Sadly, same protocol allows
falsification
and subterfuge.
Are you suggesting that usage of Port 25 (or whatever new port would be
used for the new system) should
be a monopoly? If so, what organization would own that monopoly?
Would there be laws inforcing that
monopoly, like there were for the PTSs?
Would port 25 be blocked by law, or recycled by IANA to host a new
service?
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