[171422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Tue Apr 29 03:10:25 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:37:35 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <vVZs1n01E1cZc5601VZwn1>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 4/28/2014 12:32 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> On April 27, 2014 at 21:56 LarrySheldon@cox.net (Larry Sheldon) wrote:
> > On 4/27/2014 8:59 PM, goemon@anime.net wrote:
> > > If the carriers now get to play packet favoritism and pay-for-play, they
> > > should lose common carrier protections.
> >
> > I didn't think the Internet providers were common carriers.
>
> Here we go again!
>
> There is more than one commonly used meaning for "common carriers".
Please list only the meanings that involve "protections" that should be
removed.
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