On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 October 2009, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >>> in-line :- > >>> > >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:52, Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > http://dot.gov.in/miscellaneous/publicnotice.pdf > >>> > > >>> > and also see this > >>> > http://www.medianama.com/2009/10/223-indian-government-wants-telcos-t > >>> >o-re gister-wifi-users-within-60-days/ > >>> > >>> This is definitely bad news for potential users of technology > >>> (including me) > >>> > >>> Also, you apparently find it difficult to understand the notification. > >>> Nobody is interested in users having passwords to log into private > >>> networks, the notification asks for all users to be centrally > >>> registered with the ISP. This is a backdoor method to empower ISPs to > >>> begin identifying subscribers on the basis of numbers of users per > >>> subscription ID, and the logical next step will be differential rates. > >> > >> The poster has got it wrong. The notification asks "All internet and > >> Broadband users using WIFi connectivity" to register with the ISP. That > >> is if you have an internet / broadband connection (that would include > >> ADSL / LL / Dialup), AND use a wifi router, you have to register AGAIN. > >> To get an internet connection you have to register anyway, nothing new > >> there. > > > > Not quite. Here is the extract from the notification received by Tata > > Communications, and hosted on their website (and quoted in the > > MediaNama article): > > > > [I.a.iii: Licencee (Telco) shall ensure that unique user IDs and > > Passwords do not have provisions for simultaneous multiple logins. > > Licencee may give more than one use ID and Password to a single > > subscriber for multiple for his Internet account > > > > I.a.iv: Licencee shall put a clause in Subscriber Agreement of new > > subscribers that any WiFi connectivity deployed by subscriber has to > > be activated only after it is registered for centralized > > authentication with the Licencee.] > > > > This means not only that the subscriber has to register again > > (naturally, as Mr Kaiz of MediaNama comments fame notes, you won't > > mind spending that extra time, effort and paise to save your loved > > ones from being, like Napoleon, blown apart), but that she must also > > ensure that all her users (family members, guests) must also be > > registered. Or else she gets the chop, chop, chop, in four months, and > > the ISP can laugh all the way to the bank. In fact, this gives a > > superb excuse for the ISP to cut off services to customers at will > > (not that they really need excuses). > > Actually, a rather amusing afterthought: seems that the government is > perfectly happy if subscribers use their Bluetooth phones to tether > their broadband 3G/Edge/EVDO connections to anonymous users. HDSPA > anyone?
Ha Ha. Anonymous proxy on bluetooth? Dont know if cell phones have the juice to run proxy/nat. > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
