[171824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu May 15 10:37:42 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140515010512.GB10673@hezmatt.org>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 07:29:06 -0700
To: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Having an actual free market would require having competition. So long =
as we have monopoly layer 1 providers being allowed to use that monopoly =
as leverage for higher layer service monopolies, (or oligopolies), an =
actual free market is virtually impossible.
The result of deregulating the current environment would only be more =
pain and cost to the consumer than we currently have with no improvement =
in speeds or capabilities and no additional innovation.
Owen
On May 14, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 07:01:36PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>> Maybe it is time to try a free market.
>=20
> Can't do that, it would be UnAmerican!
>=20
> - Matt
>=20
> --=20
> I can only guess that the designer of the things had a major Toilet =
Duck
> habit and had managed to score a couple of industrial-sized bottles of =
the
> stuff the night before.
> -- Tanuki
