From editor@telecom-digest.org Fri Apr 23 00:54:55 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i3N4stE27339; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:54:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200404230454.i3N4stE27339@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #202 TELECOM Digest Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:55:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 202 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson FCC May Tap Internet Phones (VOIP News) FCC Rejects AT&T VOIP Petition (VOIP News) Daniel Beringer Responds to FCC Denial AT&T VOIP Petition (VOIP News) Re: Can't Ping IP Printer (Gene Berkowitz) Global 900- Numbers...+979 (+979) Re: Feds: No Analog TV by '09 (Tom Betz) Re: Phone Line Connected to Satellite System Problems (Clarence Dold) Re: Factory Flaws Yield Headaches For Chip Makers (Lisa Hancock) Many Virii Going Out Under my Name Today (TELECOM Digest Editor) "Toothing" for Sex (Robert Weller) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:10:44 -0400 Subject: FCC May Tap Internet Phones Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=13899&repository=0001_article By Lise Marken Thursday, April 22, 2004 A coalition of 13 higher-education and library associations is hoping to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from requiring wiretap capabilities to be installed on Internet networks. Three federal agencies have petitioned the FCC to require Internet service providers, including many colleges and universities, to equip their networks with wiretap capabilities that allow law enforcement agencies to monitor Internet-based phone calling known as voice-over IP. The coalition, in comments filed with the FCC on April 12, argued that the proposed requirements would have a negative impact on research and education programs ... inhibit innovation, compromise privacy and be costly at a time when budgets are already strained to the breaking point. [.....] The dispute centers on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, adopted in 1994. This law requires phone companies to engineer their networks to facilitate federal wire-tapping capabilities and the federal agencies are claiming that they require the same level of access to phone conversations that take place over the Internet. The coalition of university and library associations, however, disputes the claim that Internet networks should be included under the law. Full story at: http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=13899&repository=0001_article Additional comments at: http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/academics_and_l.html How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:30:37 -0400 Subject: FCC Rejects AT&T VOIP Petition Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.itworld.com/Man/2697/040422fccatt/ IDG News Service 4/22/04 Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Washington Bureau The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected a petition from AT&T Corp. that would have allowed the company to avoid paying its telecommunications competitors access charges on telephone calls partly carried on IP (Internet Protocol) networks. Late Wednesday, the FCC announced its decision that traditional telephone calls that start and end on the public switched telephone network (PSTN), but are carried part of the time on AT&T's Internet backbone, are classified as telecommunications service. Those calls are subject to the access charges that are exchanged when a telephone call made through one carrier ends on another carrier's network. AT&T had asked the FCC for clarification on whether these phone calls should be classified as information services, like most other Internet-based traffic, and free from most FCC regulation. In February, the FCC decided that another voice over IP (VOIP) service, Free World Dialup, was exempt from most telecommunications regulations. Free World Dialup, a free service, allows members to talk to each other through software installed on their computers. The service does not allow members to place voice calls to nonmembers. But the FCC said AT&T's service fit squarely into the definitions of a telecommunications service because the phone calls start and end on the PSTN. "Today's decision is correctly decided on very narrow grounds," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement "A straightforward application of existing law places the long distance telephone service, as it is factually described by AT&T, squarely in the category of a telecommunications service." Full story at: http://www.itworld.com/Man/2697/040422fccatt/ ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:48:33 -0400 Subject: Daniel Berninger Responds to FCC Denial AT&T VoIP Petition Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.telephonyworld.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=1082683725 DANIEL BERNINGER RESPONDS TO FCC DENIAL AT&T VOIP PETITION AND IMPOSES OF ACCESS FEES Daniel Berninger available to comment on why FCC's denial of AT&T petition sets a very negative precedent - dan@danielberninger.com, +1.202.250.3428 See FCC Order denying AT&T VoIP petition at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-97A1.pdf Daniel Berninger -- independent technology analyst based in Washington, DC. Expert in technical and regulatory aspects of the Internet communication applications. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon, HP, and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications. He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC, Vonage, and Free World Dialup. Daniel Berninger co-authored the Inflexion Communication petition: FCC data shows five percent of the population cannot afford telephone service even given existing cross-subsidy schemes. Inflexion Communications' Petition (see FCC 04-52) for Declaratory Ruling that ExtendIP Voice Service is Exempt from Access Charges argues imposition of access fees on VoIP discourages investment and threatens the prospects for addressing underserved markets: Full story at: http://www.telephonyworld.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=1082683725 ------------------------------ From: Gene S. Berkowitz Subject: Re: Can't Ping IP Printer? Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:59:07 -0400 In article , me@privacy.net says: > I've set up three routers to provide security between two small > networks, yet be able to share resources. > The setup consists of a Speedstream DSL modem, a Netgear FVS318 > immediately downstream; and two RP614v2 routers plugged into the > '318. All computers (6 total) are plugged into the 614's. > I configured the routers so that they each have unique IP addresses, > and serve (DHCP) unique ranges of IP addresses. > All computers can share the DSL service without problems. Everything > seemed fine. > I then added an HP LaserJet 2300 printer with built-in Ethernet card > (HP option). I plugged the printer into the '318. I then set up a > (memory is a bit fuzzy, here) port for access to the printer's IP > address (I think). > When the printer is plugged into either of the 614's, the computers on > that network can print to the printer. When it is plugged into the > 318, no one can see it or print to it. Pinging doesn't work either (no > packets returned; times out) when the printer is on the "other side" > of the 614. > I presume it is possible to access the printer across the router; what > am I overlooking? > Thanks, > DaveC > me@privacy.net > This is an invalid return address > Please reply in the news group By default, the JetDirect ethernet interface looks for a DHCP server, which is probably handing out a different IP than the routers did; did you check what IP the printer is using (you can print out a test print with this info on it). Try disabling DHCP on the printer, and use a fixed IP. Also, are you sure that the port on the '318 doesn't require a crossover cable for talking to the printer? Gene ------------------------------ From: global900numbers@yahoo.com (+979) Subject: Global 900- Numbers...+979 Date: 22 Apr 2004 17:41:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Reply to whowever was asking: "Anybody knows any international 900 numbers?" I heard an interesting concept that finally global 900- numbers are being implemented around the globe and that will be a big help for anybody doing any type of 900 business at local or global scale. The company's email address I found was info@maiden.vg and it seems that they really have the numbers in service already, finally even got somebody on the phone too. The good thing about these e.g. from USA 011-979.... numbers is that the local regulations do not apply so strictly since it is really an international call. I did some research about +979 or International Premium Rate Number (IPRN ) and they seem to be real and also the providers can be found at ITU website. Well done, whoever came with an idea. There must be ton of business for this type of service. Hope this helps you :) ------------------------------ From: Tom Betz Subject: Re: Feds: No Analog TV by '09 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: XOme Quoth dold@FedsXXNoXA.usenet.us.com in news:telecom23.199.7@telecom- digest.org: > My primary TV is a 1993 32" RCA CRT that still looks as good as it > ever did. Likewise with my 1991 25" Sony Trinitron. That's a damned good picture tube. "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S. ------------------------------ From: dold@PhoneXLine.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: Phone Line Connected to Satellite System Problems Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:16:12 UTC Organization: a2i network > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:43:03 -0400, Keith Knipschild > wrote: >> I recently got a Satellite System installed from DISH Network, The >> receiver needs to be connected to a phone line otherwise Dish charges >> $5 a month. >> But I seem to be having a problem, The DISH receiver does not >> recognize my phone line, (Which is POTS) it fails on a phone line >> test. >> I then remembered that since I have VOICE DIALING, the dial tone is >> very brief ... Maybe that is causing the failure. From the page http://www.tivofaq.com/index.html?http://www.tivofaq.com/Bugs.html In Messages & Setup -> Recorder & Phone Setup -> Phone Connection -> Change Dialing Options, set the Phone Available and the Dialtone Detection options to OFF. Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) Subject: Re: Factory Flaws Yield Headaches For Chip Makers Date: 22 Apr 2004 19:19:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Monty Solomon wrote > SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - For chip makers, problems on the > factory floor are increasingly turning into big headaches in the > executive suite. Some of the world's biggest chip makers have lost > both money and time straightening out the extraordinarily complex > process of turning microchip designs and discs of silicon into > working electronics. This is nothing new and goes back 55 years. When IBM began building electronic computers using radio tubes, they found that minute imperfections -- that weren't noticed in radio usage -- resulted in errors in computing. IBM worked hard to define requirements for computer tubes and get tube makers to mfr them per those specs. It took at least ten years after the invention of the transistor to get them into computers for the reasons above. Until that point, transistors cost _more_ than tubes despite being simpler and smaller. Making quality transistors in volume was a very difficult challenge. For every new solid state technology, manufacturing in volume was tough. IBM and others spent millions building new plants, and sometimes stuff still failed. IBM's S/360, introduced 40 years ago and used early integrated circuitry, was delayed on account of component problems. ------------------------------ From: ptownson@telecom-digest.org Subject: Lots of Virii Out Being Sent by 'me'. Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:39:32 EDT A large number of virii are being sent to Digest readers from "me" via Denmark. > One of my correspondents noted to me: Below is the From and TO with > the subject warning. It was transmitted from 62.240.100.70 an ISP > somewhere in Denmark or The Netherlands (I'm not in my office with the > luxuries of trace). > My virus checker picked up the file and deleted it. What really makes me sick is that of course I send out this Digest and many readers depend on the ability to click on the various links they find in it each issue to get further news reports, etc. I hope you will not stop clicking on links you get in email from me because of the fact that there are virii going around sent by 'me'. Obviously I do not send out single emails with an attachment to 'please click here' to 'read', etc. Of course you should also take note if the attachment you got from the imposter claiming to be me contains '.exe' as part of the file name. I suppose I should now prepare some form reply to be sent to inquirers (of which there were two today). But to regular readers here, well you don't have to be told the story. You know about that stuff. PAT ------------------------------ From: Robert Weller Subject: "Toothing" for Sex Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:04:35 -0700 FTP: telecom-archives@telecom-digest.org Send a simple, one line note to that automated address for a help file on how to use the automatic retrieval system for archives files. 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