[59132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Mon Jun 16 04:59:05 2003
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:14:26 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <roland@linx.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306151908430.29014-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message
<Pine.GSO.4.44.0306151908430.29014-100000@clifden.donelan.com>, Sean
Donelan <sean@donelan.com> writes
>If I think
>a grocery store in Ireland is charging too much for potatoes, can I
>ask the Irish government to order the grocery store to change its price
>on potatoes?
If the grocery store had a monopoly on selling potatoes in Ireland, and
after an investigation into the costs of supplying potatoes to the
retail market it was shown that they were profiteering, you might find
they'd say "yes". Although such mechanisms are normally reserved for
utilities, and the Internet just came of age in as much as governments
now regard it as an essential utility. Another recent example being:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-714188,00.html
--
Roland Perry
