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RE: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Johnson)
Tue Jul 11 12:10:42 2006

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:10:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20060711094656.GA30693@cluecentral.net>
From: "Joe Johnson" <joe@sendjoeanemail.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "Sabri Berisha" <sabri@cluecentral.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> So, what happened to "my network, my rules"?
>=20
> Perhaps I'm not seeing the point here, but what on earth does a
> government has to do with the question wether or not a=20
> service provider
> implements QoS on his network?

The government supplies them with laws virtually making them a monopoly
in Internet transit to consumer users.  It they get a protected status
in the marketplace, the consumers deserve protection from them (the
telcos).


-joe

=20
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