[151778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: French Regulator to ask all your information about your Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raphael MAUNIER)
Fri Mar 30 17:48:41 2012
From: Raphael MAUNIER <rmaunier@neotelecoms.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:48:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20120330213751.GA51555@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Organization: United Federation of Planets
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:37:51 -0700
To: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: French Regulator to ask all your information about your
Peering
>In a message written on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:20:10PM +0000, Raphael
>MAUNIER wrote:
>> You were @GPF last week, when Martin asked : Who want this to be
>>regulated
>> ? And Who want to have his peering controled ? why you didn't raise your
>> hand ?
>>=20
>> In my memory, no one did.
>
>It's also fearmongering.
You may be right.
>
>I am not in favor of the type of regulation that Martin alluded to
>in his question. However, I also do not think all regulation is
>bad. As long as the industry's attitude is to avoid the regulator
>at all costs the regulator will make decisions without information
>and consultation, and those decisions will be bad.
I spent time to talk to them ( hours honestly ) trying to explain what is
really the peering.
I don't get the point to ask for a "consultation" and less than the month
after, oblige people to do it ?
>
>"Regulation" could be as benign as "Anyone who peers in France must
>publically post their peering policy" to something as sinister as
>"the regulator will dictate all peering arrangements to all parties".
This is my problem. In a near future, this will be the case. My guess is :
how to get some vat on top of this.
Today there is no prices, so no vat, we need to get some.
>Everyone on this list should be working _with_ the regulators
>wherever possible to educate them, and help shape regulations to
>meet your business needs.
Toons of hours for this ? Really ? Ok, I don't speak english very well, it
seems that it's the same for french.
> Other industries have done this for
>years. Lobbiests get paid millions of dollars to shape government
>regulations in favor of their employer; peering and more importantly
>regulation of the Internet is no different.
+1
>
>--=20
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
> PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
