On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Joe Abley wrote:

The Herald has an article about the Telecoms review being carried out (or to be carried out, give me a break, it's early):

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The inquiry's brief is to examine interconnection issues, the Kiwi Share obligation -which guarantees free local calling - number portability and administration, management of internet traffic and the development of New Zealand as a knowledge economy.

"Management of internet traffic" was the phrase that caught my eye. If this review strays into the issues of routing, traffic filtering and peering at the packet layer, then I am scared.

Nah - Telecom announced that they were launching the 0867 system as a service to help manage the growing amount of internet traffic placed over circuits which has historically been used for voice calls, so when they say "Manage internet traffic" they are almost certainly referring to management at this level, not at an IP level. "Luminous packets are we, not these crude circuits." JSR -- John S Russell, IHUG Admin Wrangler "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive. But lightning does all the work." - Mark Twain --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog