[125346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Andersen)
Mon Apr 12 15:36:57 2010
From: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <x2r620fd17c1004121208u2450791er59123ae610fa0ac9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:36:02 -0400
To: Paul WALL <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 12, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> =
wrote:
>> One of the things I like about e-mail lists is learning things about =
myself
>> that I never knew before, especially regarding my occupation. For the =
last 9
>> months or so I've been working part-time with a Washington think tank =
in an
>> analyst capacity, not as a lobbyist, and not on the Comcast payroll.
>=20
> You neglected to mention that the "think tank" (where I'm from in
> Houston, we call them lobbys) is funded by Comcast, among other big
> cable/telecom players.
In fairness to to the ITIF (his current employer), they're =
well-respected in their core area, studying innovation policy. I've =
seen some of the work done by Rob Atkinson (full disclosure: Rob is =
currently visiting my university giving a talk), and it's good.
That said, I dislike strongly Richard's M.O. of trying to stir up =
hornets nests by playing the fool/troll in order to get NANOG and other =
venues to do his job for him, and I hope this statement doesn't come =
across as a defense of that. I've already plonked him.
</off topic>
-Dave
