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To: Jeff Woodard who wrote (2)	9/30/1995 10:47:00 AM
From: olduser	of 201

Audio over the 'NET is a virus Jeff Woodard says: "Internet packets are packets". Well, he's almost right. "Realtime" audio over the net requires the packets to be sent and received in sequence or its just "packet noise". The result is that realtime audio (or video) muscles out of the way other packets that are travelling down the internet "pipe" because they have assumed a priority status. The internet's low cost depends on the "democracy" of data packets (every packet is as important as every other packet). If realtime audio and video becomes widespread on the internet it will require a new pricing scheme that will be based on a per packet charge and settlement process that will radically alter current business models and we will revert to a scheme that looks alot like the current phone service model. That would be a tragedy. I'm an internet service provider and I call audio over the net a very nasty virus that must be stamped out. Why reinvent phone service? Why not use the phone? Do you really think the phone companies will allow voice packets to transmit over their transmission lines free? Mike Byrnes mbyrnes@tpoint.net

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