Re: [nottingham] RIP bill and new draft order

From: Martin Hamilton (martin@net.lut.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 11 Jun 2002 - 23:34:26 BST


Carl Ebrey writes:

| That's interesting reading actually, and I'm glad you posted it. I wonder
| if you can use VPNs on my ADSL connection.

There's also the question of what constitutes a VPN, but obviously
it's not in their interests to spell this out. I mean... CIPE, ssh
connection forwarding, stunnel, ICMP tunnelling... ? At what point
does it become a VPN ? Now PPTP, L2TP and IPSEC are a bit more
clearcut ;-)

I find the implication that "residential" punters don't deserve any
security pretty insulting. Suppose they have to drum up punters for
the business service somehow, but I can't help thinking this is only
going to drive people into BT's waiting arms!

BT OpenWorld doesn't appear to have any equivalent restrictions ...

  http://www.abuse-guidance.com/internet_access_aup.html

(yes, that really is their domain for this stuff)

And nor does Telewest/BlueYonder...

  http://help.blueyonder.co.uk/publish/rules_aup.html

 ...unless you know better!

Cheers,

Martin

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