[18675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Aug 13 19:28:42 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:04:57 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35D35D16.590DBB69@concentric.net>; from Henry Linneweh <linneweh@concentric.net> on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 02:39:34PM -0700
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 02:39:34PM -0700, Henry Linneweh wrote:
> And Sprint owns earthlink does it not? As I look at this more and more I
> see the internet and the web being destroyed and cut up and soon non
> functional for anyone's use.
>
> The government must be laughing their asses off and wallstreet is gonna
> have a field day with toasted ISP's and carriers destroyed by blind people's
> greed and inability to manage a global network
>
> Failure of management is the crux to this issue and maintaining what has
> worked for over 20 years. That to states there are some people in serious need of
> sacking in some boardrooms.....
Can you say "tragedy of the commons"? The Internet is fast becoming a
utility. Utilities have, in the past been government regulated because
they supply essential services which it has been deemed by the
government that caprice should not enter into the delivery of.
One of two things is going to happen:
The big players are going to get religion and discover that engineering
_has to_ outweigh business considerations (ie: if all your customers
leave because you won't let your engineers run a usable network, you're
screwed...), or...
The government will step in and set rules.
Alas, I don't give the big guys' bean counters that much credit.
I don't think the Ranger's gonna _like_ this, Yogi...
Cheers,
-- jra
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