January 22, 2004

Is VoIP a square peg or a round peg?

In today’s NYT, the FCC Chairman Powell is quoted (requires subscription) as saying, “Don't shove the round Internet into a square regulatory hole.” According to Cambridge Dictionary Online, the common usage is “square peg in a round hole”. Did Mr. Powell give a deliberate hint? (At least you will conclude that I have a sense of humor, however labored it is.)

You engineers can figure it that given appropriate dimensions, a round peg fits a square hole better than a square peg in a round hole. (The proportion of fit is pi/4, rather than 2/pi). So probably what Mr. Powell is trying to tell us is that there may be some form of regulation and not the full regime applied to PSTN. Sometimes thinking like Oliver Stone is fun.

Posted by aswath at January 22, 2004 01:26 PM
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