[161768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Tue Mar 26 17:16:43 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGVL8f4K9kGSJiSnLbM5SNX7f0Ltt9=W3WKadkQ9qkUdgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:16:30 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:01 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
...
>> Do the engineering heads at the top 10 tier-1/2 carriers carry enough water
>> to make that sale to the CEOs?
>
> To ask the CEOs to authorize cutting off access to a competitor's web
> site with the full support and approval of a group of recognized
> Internet luminaries?
I'm not a lawyer, but I do work out with one at the gym.
I would strongly encourage people considering this to
discuss the following terms with their legal staff *first*:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Anti-competitive practice
Refusal to deal
restraint of trade
collusion
cartel
Once you've had a polite and cheerful discussion about
the feasibility of some set of companies in the public
space banding together to restrict access to a subset
of their competitors with your legal staff, we can
go back to discussing how best to configure our
routers.
Thanks!
Matt
