[133936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael DeMan)
Mon Dec 20 13:10:35 2010
From: Michael DeMan <nanog@deman.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101220014804.GD38726@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:10:22 -0800
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
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 5:48 PM, Richard A Steenbergen 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. :)
+1 on this - it is the source of a huge number of problems in the industry.
