[Starlink] Re: [Bloat] [NNagain] The French have decided to destroy the Internet within their own country by taxing Gigabits (Dr. Peering)

[Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>]

Hi David,


> On Nov 4, 2026, at 20:14, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> 
> Sebastian Moeller via Bloat wrote:
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>>> In essence, someone in France could VPN to a different country; neither the ISP or the VPN provider would know the specific content being accessed
>> 
>> Indeed, and the law explicitly states that just received bytes for the ISPs customers are to be counted, per ASN and the bill is supposed to be sent to that ASN, independent of whether that ASN is the true source or what kind of data we are talking about...  actually the law states that neither destination (the specific enduser) nor content are to be looked at/reported/aggregated.
> 
> so if a packet transitions multiple ISPs, each one would generate a bill for the traffic? what a way to entrench large ISPs

As far as I understand only the final ISP that serves the destination IP address... so if e.g. free would use orange as transit provider orange would not count that data as it does not terminate at end-users. BUT I have only read translations as my french is to bad and I have zero understanding of french legalese, so you might be correct that such a situation is not currently handled* 

> 
> (I may be misunderstanding something)

I am in the same boat ;)

> 
> David Lang


*) Ans anyway, I thing we all agree this thing is half-baked at best and will not pass (at least not in that form).