[173716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Fri Aug 1 04:34:46 2014
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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 02:34:33 -0600
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
In-Reply-To: <201408010944.28220.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Anyone know how to summarize this end game well enough for state/federal
legislators?
Or raise enough money and direction to provide sufficient
"lobbying?"
Wasn't KC asking for a dept of the Internet at the NANOG 20 in DC?
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:44:28AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Friday, August 01, 2014 09:30:57 AM mcfbbqroast . wrote:
>
> > I think this is a sector the
> > government would do well in. Unlike being an actual ISP
> > there's no ambiguity (oversubscription, customer
> > service, etc). Just provide a gigabit line with no
> > congestion and solid uptime, or a fibre pair with solid
> > uptime. End of story.
>
> Couldn't agree more :-).
>
> Mark.
