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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jul 21 13:21:38 2014

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:19:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>

> On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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> > Is anyone else cynical enough to say FiOS going symmetrical is an
> > attempt to blunt the pro-NetFlix argument on that point?
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> I certainly don=E2=80=99t think it hurts.. but in general I=E2=80=99ll sa=
y the FiOS
> going symmetrical is very pro-consumer and pro-internet and in that
> part I suspect we will both agree.

Well, if they are provisioned for it, and if they don't (continue to)
impose the silly "you can't run a server on a consumer circuit"
crap they traditionally have.

I just have no faith that all the dominos are lined up in the proper
direction...

Cheers,
-- jra
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