[83236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McGuckin)
Mon Aug 8 00:52:55 2005
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:53:23 -0700
From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050808022019.GT8847@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/7/05 7:20 PM, "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> Maybe what we need is a certain class of
> company who will be responsible for running and maintaining the public
> data infrastructures. They could have lots of government regulations to
> ensure that they are charging a "fair" price while still being guaranteed
> a profit, and they could provide the last mile service for all those ISPs
> out there who are the ones that can actually compete and innovate.
Yes, it's called structural separation.
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Joe McGuckin
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