[168594] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Updated ARIN allocation information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Jan 30 22:20:36 2014
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:32:07 -0500."
<Pine.LNX.4.64.1401301829440.20750@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:20:04 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1401301829440.20750@whammy.cluebyfour.org>, "Justin M
. Streiner" writes:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> > In Australia I would sue Telstra, Optus, ... if their customers
> > couldn't reach me due to routes being filtered. I would take this
> > to the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) as a
> > restraint of trade issue.
>
> And if the provider doing the filtering isn't in $your_country? I'm sure
> a few tech-savvy lawyers are salivating over this one.
>
> jms
I figure there will be similar problem for other business in other
countries and they will fight a similar battles. Eventually the
regulators will step in because it is bad for small businesses to
be shut out of the Internet.
Hopefully most/all eyeball networks will be delivering IPv6
connectivity before allocations like these are needed. Collectively
you only have yourselves to blame if there are needed in earnest.
Mark
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