[133901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Dec 19 23:42:25 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC130D2@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:38:32 -0800
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 19, 2010, at 5:50 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>> 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. :)
>>
>> --
>> 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.
>
>
Australia is actually experimenting with something like that as we speak.
Owen
