Glenn Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indeed. but as ever there's greyness on both sides. All too often these contracts also say "We reserve the right to change them as we see fit". So we have ISPs that initially say "No LANs". Then LANs are ok. Then it's "No Servers", although there's no attempt to check it. Then it's No Port 25. Then it's No WLAN. Then they're selling WLAN equipment. But you're only supposed to use it inside your home or SME for your own use. Then it will be bandwidth restrictions. Then there's the clause that says no VPNs, no business use. Except that everyone routinely uses SSL, many use SSH, a prime reason for professionals buying broadband is access to corporate systems from home, and we should be encouraging end to end encryption.When you sign up for service and you agree to terms that say, for instance, you can't share your network access, you're engaged in a process that spans at least 1,000 years in the Anglo-Saxon/Norman world. Unless the term itself is illegal -- that is a statute or a regulation bars ISPs from restricting free reuse by parties outside a home of bandwidth you purchase -- that contract is binding.
What I want is just Moore's law applied to what I had 10 years ago. Then I paid a tenner a month for dial up with a fixed IP over a 14.4 or 28k modem. The only restriction was the laws of the land and an AUP that said no spamming or porn. 10 years of Moores's law ought to give me exactly the same for the same price but at 1Mb to 2Mb (both up and down). I know there are good market and technical reasons why I can't have it in 2002. But that's what I want and that's what I want everyone else to have. So can I have it in 2003 please? And if not then, when?
Conceptually, I cannot see why an ISP should have any interest in what's embedded in the packets. I want to treat them as a common carrier. And if the problem is actually their upstream bandwidth costs, then why is that not coming down in price and up in performance along with every other form of electronics?
So how long will it take for all this debt driven stupidity to get resolved? 1-2-5-10 years?
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