[33742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-provider communications (Re: nobody @home)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas A. Dever)
Mon Jan 22 15:39:52 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:37:34 -0500 (EST)
From: "Douglas A. Dever" <dever@hq.oh.verio.net>
Reply-To: dever@verio.net
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> Another thought - I don't advocate lots of government involvement in the
> Internet arena, but perhaps it's time that our Congresscritters demanded
> that these big companies talk to each other. Those big guys want us to think
> that Internet transit is as reliable as dialtone.[0] It won't be as long as
> they continue to make it difficult to stop attacks...
>
IMHO, Government involvement in anything = bad. How, exactly, do you
expect "Congresscritters" to force competitors to play nicely with each
other? Internet access is not a public utility. Let's not invivte the
regulators and legislators to start kicking around in the sandbox anymore
than they are already trying to.
--
Douglas A. Dever dever@verio.net
Network Engineering Manager
Verio - http://www.verio.net
