[133889] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Sun Dec 19 20:50:23 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:50:17 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20101220014804.GD38726@gerbil.cluepon.net>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"Bryan Fields" <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Personally I think the right answer is to enforce a legal separation
> between the layer 1 and layer 3 infrastructure providers, and require
> that the layer 1 network provide non-discriminatory access to any
> company who wishes to provide IP to the end user. But that would take
a
> lot of work to implement, and there are billions of dollars at work
> lobbying against it, so I don't expect it to happen any time soon. :)
>=20
> --
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-
> gerbil.net/ras
> GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1
> 2CBC)
I agree. The "highway" model of commerce is better than the "railroad"
model of commerce.
