[136696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Feb 4 01:14:25 2011
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC13850@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:13:34 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
>
> The federal government clearly has the authority to manage
> communications across the border of the country and between states but
> it would be questionable if the federal government has the authority to
> manage any communications completely within a state. Do they have the
> authority to tell me to turn down a connection that terminates within
> the same state that I am in?
>
> Sure, they would have the authority to tell me to turn down any
> international tunnels I might have running or a point-to-point that
> crosses state lines but I doubt they have the authority to tell me to
> turn down a cross-connect terminating in the same building. That would
> be the jurisdiction of state authority, not federal.
>
I am making no argument to the contrary.
But I should caution you that there are forces at work currently which are
making motions to federalize this authority.
I think we all should be deeply concerned -- some of this
pandering/politicizing/scar-mongering can have ill effects.
- - ferg
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