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Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Tue Jul 11 10:14:57 2006

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:44:27 +0930
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>,
	nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87y7v0w8ev.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:58:00PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
 
 > > Eh?  Of course they are.  They're selling transit to their cable
 > > modem customers, surely?
 > 
 > Quote from a typical terms of service agreement:

I think you're missing the point, Florian.  Regardless of any 
retail restrictions, the fact still remains that your local 
Cable company is selling connectivity to other peoples' 
autonomous systems.

That's transit.

And that's what eBay and Google don't sell.

  - mark

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