[159975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Tue Jan 29 18:50:47 2013
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:50:33 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <25436327.4219.1359490673016.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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On 13-01-29 15:17, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> If you're at layer 1, and arguably at layer 2, then move-add-change on
> physical patches / VLAN assignments is all you would need to log, since you
> don't actually touch "real traffic".
It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or
federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail offering.
Wholesale only.
Not only is the last mile competitively neutral because it is not
involved in retail, but it them invites competition by allowing many
service providers to provide retail services over the last mile network.
