[38532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Self Regulation (was Re: New peering criteria)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Wed Jun 6 17:54:38 2001
To: james@divide.org, vijay@umbc.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, sean@donelan.com
Message-Id: <20010606215237.B3DF8C7901@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| I would imagine that such actions tend to irritate the hive of regulatory
| officials. Self regulation would be one way to prevent such action.
The answer is simple: have more lawyers than most jurisdictions
have civil servants.
q: what is a phone company?
a: it's a law firm with a side-interest in telecommunications
q: what do phone company facilities look like?
a: boxes with no windows stuffed with lawyers and an antenna on top
q: who has more employees? a standalone ISP or a phone company's legal
branch's Human Resources department?
a: that's not funny. see you in court.
q: is it true that some phone companies' legal branches are revenue centres?
a: oh yes. and don't forget that at least one IXC _literally_
sued itself into existence.
Is there any serious and relevant regulatory authority which
is going to intervene in a contractual dispute between parties
which are NOT dominant in their industry?
It seems to me that players like C&W face vigorous competition.
Sean.
PS - can you tell how much i hate it when vaguely technical people
pose ex cathedra about vaguely legal & regulatory issues?
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Sean Doran <smd@clock.org>
From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:
"mulch, noun. 1. a protective covering of half-rotten vegetable matter (cf legal department)"
