Re: Bitrate tax.

[Sam Wilson <]

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> Date:     Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:56:13 +0200
> From:     Oliver Korfmacher okorf@localhost
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> Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > 
> > >     The Belgian Minister for Telecommunications came up with the idea
> > >     of introducing a "bitrate tax" on information transmission.
> > > Perhaps IPng provides a "tax paid" field in the IP header? :-)
> > 
> > Let's give it to ICTF. I want to see the following fields
> > 
> > TP - Tax paid
> > PC - Political Correct
> > LI - Legally Immigrated
> > SI - Social Insured
> > EA - Encryption Approved
> > 
> > Brave New World
> > 
> >         Toerless
> inevitably:
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>   MS - may be routed over Microsoft networks/products
> 
> 
> 	Oliver

BC - border crossed

Of course the border routers would need red, green and blue forwarding
paths with occasional random checks on packets in the green and blue
channels... 

Sam Wilson
Network Services Division
Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK