[71338] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Jun 13 01:56:40 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 13 Jun 2004 05:56:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKCEEIMJAA.davids@webmaster.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
davids@webmaster.com ("David Schwartz") writes:
> > ISPs don't put the pollution in the water, ISPs are trying to clean up
> > the water polluted by others. ISPs are spending a lot of money cleaning
> > up problems created by other people.
>
> ISPs do put the pollution in the water. They own/run the pipes that
> carry the pollution into the ocean. Nobody cares about pollution inside
> the ISP's own network, we only care about the pollution they put into our
> water. They own, run, and manage
"and profit from"
> the pipes that put the pollution where it can harm others. They have
> continuous control over the process and ultimately decide who does or
> does not put things into those pipes and influence the policies.
yea, verily.
--
Paul Vixie
