From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 1 00:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03042 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 00:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA03037 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 00:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA16979 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:22:17 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08571 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:22:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA16232 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:20:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610010720.JAA16232@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: isdn code To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:20:23 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Oct 1, 96 11:30:29 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > > I thought many Germans were using it, since their country has a real > > communications infrastructure, unlike ours. > > They have a unified ISDN policy like Japan does. Communications > monopolies makes this easier I suppose. It's not only a question of monopolies here. The monopoly Telco ``Deutsche Telekom'' even gave up its own switch protocol (1-TR6) in favor of the European one (E-DSS1). One of the few attempts of standardization that seem to work. Even new telco's wouldn't have much chances without offering E-DSS1 now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)