[109145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet partitioning event regulations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierfrancesco Caci)
Thu Nov 6 03:48:35 2008
From: Pierfrancesco Caci <p.caci@seabone.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:47:02 +0100
In-Reply-To: <18252591.7901225904349660.JavaMail.root@scalix.pari.edu> (Lamar
Owen's message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:59:09 -0500")
Reply-To: Pierfrancesco Caci <p.caci@seabone.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
:-> "Lamar" == Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> writes:
> Charles Wyble charles@thewybles.com wrote:
>> Lamar Owen wrote:
>> > There are three ways that I know of (feel free to add to this list) to limit the events:
>> > 1.) As you mentioned, regulation (or a government run and regulated backbone);
>> Right. But what do we want this to look like?
> Well, since I've already stepped out on a limb, here goes my try
> at a rough outline of what such a regulation might look like
> (with the caveat that this is likely too simple to actually make
> it as a regulation):
[...]
> 2.) Allocate regulatory responsibility and enforcement authority
> to an entity. I would suggest the FCC would be appropriate.
> (This outline might then be the start of a 47 CFR 221 or
> similar).
[...]
> 6.) Mandate that all transit-free Internet carriers shall
> maintain peering arrangements with all other transit-free
> Internet carriers to maintain a complete Internet (citing some
> law that makes a 'complete Internet' a national security matter,
> or somesuch, and belongs in 47 CFR 221 as a result).
[...]
> 8.) Authorize the issuance of a 'Tier 1 Internet Provider'
> license (that must be renewed periodically, with documentation
> supporting the Tier 1 status) to participating transit-free
> Internet carriers (for a fee to cover the opex).
> 9.) Authorize the FCC's Enforcement Bureau to enforce.
err... do you realize there's about 6.4 * 10^9 other people outside of
the USA, don't you?
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