[ih] History of the Economics of the Internet?

[Scott O. Bradner]

it also touches on what the legacy telcos expect as to settlements etc


> On Jul 30, 2026, at 4:48 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> It appears that Scott Bradner via Internet-history <sob at sobco.com> said:
>> this covers some of the current discussions over the Internet's economic model 
>> within the regulatory world (at least in the US)
>> 
>> https://isoclive.substack.com/p/fcc-ip-transition
> 
> Not really. It's about moving the telephone system from legacy SS7 to IP
> signalling, switching, and transport. It's the same technology as the Internet
> but it's separate dedicated IP networks with privately negotiated
> interconnections and occasionally still per-minute settlements.
> 
> There is also telephony that runs "over the top" of the public Internet, but
> that's something else. That's VoIP, Voice over IP, while the former is VuIP,
> Voice using IP. There are plenty of vendors that provide VoIP to VuIP gateways
> so your VoIP terminals can make and receive calls to or from real phone numbers.
> 
> R's,
> John