[108879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Oct 31 10:12:43 2008
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <490B0D9B.4070709@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:12:33 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 31, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
>> Why do I say stupid?
>> Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what
>> Sprint is doing, this will certainly lead to being noticed by
>> legislators, and the next thing we know we will have federally
>> regulated peering or backbone network operating. I can see it now,
>> the Bureau of Peering will be part of the Federal Networking
>> Committee.
>
> I think you are wrong to the extent that BOP will be under the
> Department Of Fairness.
the two likely entities in the United States would be either the FCC
or DHS.
(DHS you say?) The NCS lives under DHS. I wonder if sprint reported
the "outage" to the FCC yet, or what answer you would get from calling
the NCS or NCC watch.
- Jared
