[108929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Sun Nov 2 08:59:02 2008
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:58:45 -0500
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4c7b1780811020452r55f86e98w778fa65428fa04cb@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Marc Farnum Rendino wrote:
> Folks -
>
> At some point, a society decides that X is important enough to the
> society as a whole, that something official is in the overall
> interest. Roads, immigration, whatever. That it's necessary to require
> that some things be done (or not be done).
>
> Peering may very well not be in that category, however I think it's
> worth discussion.
>
> - Marc
My response would be to point out the behavior of the incumbents in the
telcom industry vs. the upstarts; which are the ones responsible for
most of the innovation that actually got delivered to the market?
Regulations raise barriers to entry; which favors the incumbent over the
upstart.
Roads are a bad analogy and will only serve to obscure the discussion.
--Patrick
