[85250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Oct 6 13:43:09 2005
In-Reply-To: <4345492B.2040905@greendragon.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:56 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Let me be the punching bag for pondering this on NANOG... What
>> about the
>> roles of governments building a consortium with Teir-1 NSP's where
>> those
>> backbone Tiers are regulated and have predefined, strictly enforced
>> rulesets they'd have to follow. The irony of this is that it
>> sounds both
>> like a nightmare and a dream.
>>
> Congratulations, you've reinvented the Internet. This is exactly what
> we did when we built the original (NSFnet). It worked!
I would argue the NSFnet would not scale to today's Internet. Not to
mention today's Internet has the added value of not sucking up 90% of
NSF's budget.
> We specified regional interconnection. If you wanted to connect,
> that's
> where you had to connect, and you were required to take the traffic
> from
> everybody else at the point of interconnection. No arguments.
>
> This partitioning is exactly what we predicted in many meetings when
> discussion the terms of the contracts.
I'm wondering why "this partitioning" - predicted or not - is a "bad
thing"?
> Markets are inefficient for infrastructure and tend toward monopoly.
Strangely, the Internet has not tended toward monopoly. If you think
otherwise, you have been reading too many press releases.
> Idiot laissez-faire pseudo-libertarians forget that all markets
> require
> regulation and politics.
Politics are a natural part of human interaction. Regulation
sometimes follows.
The Internet is fairly unregulated. It works fairly well - better
than many regulated industries.
I guess I'm missing your point?
--
TTFN,
patrick
