>>>>> "Richard" == Richard L Barnes <rbarnes@xxxxxxx> writes:
Richard> Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that
Richard> has been made to the ITU: " An ITU spokesman said: "The ITU
Richard> has no plans to modify the BGP protocol, which is not an
Richard> ITU-T standard. "A proposal has been made, and is being
Richard> studied, to use BGP routers to collect traffic flow data,
Richard> which could be used, by bilateral agreement, by operators
Richard> for billing purposes."
Richard> "
Richard> Is this disingenuous or has the ITU really not heard of
Richard> netflow?
What's so bogus about wanting to charge for traffic? I mean you might
not want to have your traffic go somewhere where it's going to be
expensive, but governments have been charging for and taxing things for
a long time.
If the technical details of how to accomplish this are bogus (and
changing BGP to include flow data would be), then perhaps that should be
fixed. However judging something on all the things a spokesperson says
it is *not* seems counter productive.
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