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The TCP/IP suite first saw use on the original Department of Defense Internet in 1983. Its first implementation was amazingly successful, and it is still THE protocol of the Internet. In fact, it has grown even more, and is being used in private networks around the world. TCP/IP is a suite of communications protocols that allows communication between groups of dissimilar computer systems from a variety of vendors. It sca
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TCP/IP - In article , TELECOM Digest Editornoted in response to an article in VOIP News: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Those public servants never give up, do they? They'll be damned if they can't have VOIP service to screw up the way they have screwed up landline telco over the years. Anyway, I thought a couple days ago I read here that (a) the FCC had decided that VOIP was not going to be subject to those regulations and/or (b) the federal government was pre-empting all the state and local agencies and going to take it over exclusively for themselves. PAT]The FCC has not decided what to do about phone-to-phone VOIP yet. Ithas held that pulver.com's non-interconnected Free World Dialup isn't atelecommunications service, but it has begun a rulemaking about what tomake of this new thing that is threatening to break out of the mold ofthe 1934 Act. Legislation is being introduced (most recently by Sununuof NH -- I wonder who wrote it for him? My guess is the carrier withthe TouchTone(TM) code 288 that wants to convert all of its service toVoIP and exempt it from access charges) that would specifically exemptall VoIP service from telecommunications regulation at the state andfederal level, but a bill is about as good as a warm bucket of s*it.Michael D. SullivanBethesda, MD, USADelete nospam from my address and it won't work.
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