[86641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sat Nov 12 18:58:54 2005
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:58:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511121307310.21234@clifden.donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Is there some licensing body that surveys 99 out of 100 people to
> decide if something is "the whole internet?" That licensing body
> would then have the power to order ISPs to carry just those web
that seems like a tough challenge...
> sites? If 99 out of 100 people only access the top 20 or so web
> sites, is that the "whole Internet" for them, because they think the
> web is the Internet? Would this be "must carry" for broadcast television
> stations that must be carried for free by cable systems? Would the
Wow, and cable/dsl folks could stop carrying other 'end system' (consumer)
folks... it'd really cut down on P2P traffic problems I bet! Also, who's
going to complain since '99.9% of all P2P is illegal' anyway? (see someone
else's study about how 'all p2p is illegal', probably mpaa or riaa
sponsored)
