[85316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regulatory intervention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Fri Oct 7 12:53:42 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:51:35 -0400
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Ross Hosman <rosshosman@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20051007150216.94199.qmail@web53610.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/7/05 11:02 AM, "Ross Hosman" <rosshosman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Google Goes to Washington
>
> One of the issues Google will tackle has become news
> this week: Level 3 and Cogent Communications are
> involved in a spat that has made Web sites on each
> network inaccessible or very slow to users on the
> opposite network. Google said the government has a
> responsibility to monitor the Internet so events like
> this do not occur.
>
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Goes_to_Washington/1128691070
>
Google also has a responsibility not to bite the hand that feeds it - the
laise faire, unregulated Internet.
Shame on them. Google is not suffering at all from this.
> Ross Hosman
>
>
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Daniel Golding
