> Now traditionally in IP networks we get away with lots of stuff, but > do you think that something like this would hold up in the voice > business? voice is dominated by large players including some governments, and international interconnection seems to be regulated by the itu. if voice were full of mom&pop's the way IP is, then i daresay i would not be interrupted at my dinner hour by telemarketers nearly as often, simply because there would be no path from them to me. > (Things are slightly different for mail but not fundamentally so, > especially as some ISPs are forcing their customers to use their > relays.) until the day a cable/dsl provider decides to block "vpn access", none of that will matter. and since users of same working remotely with vpn access back to "the office" are a large part of the subscriber base, and are not a source of abuse, i do not expect them to block vpn's. with vpn's comes the freedom to do your business elsewhere (where it's safe) and use the cable/dsl line for access (as it seems to be intended) rather than for "real internet" (for which it seems ill suited.)