>"Bogus" because it's a bad idea or because the reporter significantly >misunderstood/misrepresented what the suggestion is actually about? I read the story, and I think the reporter understood the discussion pretty well, except perhaps for the distinction between capacity and traffic. We all know that networks in the US and other developed countries are rarely willing to peer with networks in less developed countries, so transit money tends to flow from the LDCs to the US. The LDCs have always hated that, since it is the exact opposite of the phone system where they carefully track the minutes in each direction and the settlement money has historically gushed from the developed countries to the LDCs. So they want the ITU to make rules that the Internet has to work like the phone system, at least financially. The Chinese, being sophisticated, would presumably also like detailed traffic stats so they know who's talking to whom. I don't understand ITU politics well enough to know how much of an issue this is likely to be in practice. I know the US has some carveouts in its agreements to implement ITU standards, e.g., our phone system signalling is entirely different from theirs, and have no idea how that would affect an ITU decision that might apply via the US to ICANN. R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf