[172934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sun Jul 13 15:35:08 2014
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From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:34:33 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On July 13, 2014 at 11:42 randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:
>
> ahhh. so
>
> not government regulated == wild west
>
> got it
Let's not forget that the big players in all this have
cross-subsidized from huge, government-protected monopolies or
very-small-N oligopolies in cable, phone services and wire plants,
etc.
To now suggest that non-governmental business processes would be
superior to arbitrate interconnects etc seems, to me, highly
disingenuous as a principled position.
Let Comcast, TW, AT&T, Verizon, etc relinquish their monopoly
protections and then perhaps we can see something resembling a free
and open business climate evolve. Even that would deny that they
already have become vast and powerful on these govt-mandated
sinecures.
I'd argue it's not the wild west inasmuch as it's more like the old
joke about three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. But the imagery
of range wars is apt.
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