[86656] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sun Nov 13 01:17:16 2005
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:16:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511122312130.22017@clifden.donelan.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> Yep. The evil empires have a hundred years of experience dealing with
> regulation. If the regulators define what the Internet is or isn't,
> instead of the marketplace, I don't know if people would recognize it
> anymore. Common carriers can have lots of regulations, but most of the
> regulations just end up shielding the carrier from liability. They can
> just say the government makes us do it, even though the tariff was
> written by the company itself, and pass along the extra costs to
> the consumer. AT&T was very dull, but profitable essentially the entire
> time it was heavily regulated. What color should Princess telephones be
> this year?
>
> Don't throw me in the briar patch :-)
I won't but blaine might :) Seriously though, phew! we were agreeing all
this time! :)
>
> The marketplace is messy. Regulation is seductive because it appears to
> be cleaner.
>
Cleaner... for who exactly? The miles of code required to figure out the
mess created by the regulations? the consumers? ugh :( That's the
deception we need to dispell.
