[162092] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Open Resolver Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Tue Apr 2 07:28:48 2013
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:28:23 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CF4E9F59-4A9E-4E03-8EB4-469C3DB15FF4@arbor.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net]
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 7:53 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Such lines are tantamount to extortion especially if the ISP supplies
> commercial grade lines.
> Patrick's talking about consumer broadband access. Such AUP stipulations
> are quite common.
> This is in no way 'tantamount to extortion'. Folks can either accept the=
AUP,
> or choose not to enter into a contract for the service in question under =
those
> conditions; there is no compulsion or coercion to do so.
And that would be a valid response if we actually lived in a place where I,=
or anyone else, had more than two choices, both offering roughly the same =
terms and pricing. In my little corner of Fairfax Co, we have Cox or FiOS.=
Across the Potomac in Montgomery, they can pick between Comcast and FiOS.=
I hear that in other bits of the US, your cable and telco might be differ=
ent, but other than the label, nothing else is.
Jamie
