[91266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Jul 11 13:38:06 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
Cc: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>,
nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:42:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20060711141426.GA3575@internode.com.au> (Mark Newton's message
of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:44:27 +0930")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Mark Newton:
> 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.
Then why do the ads promote their new chat service, instead the
ever-growing number of ASNs on the Internet? 8-) I don't think the
majority of consumers cares about this IP transit things as long as
their usual applications keep working.
Anyway, I suppose I can tell apart all these different types of
Internet access quite easily, but I can't come up with a generally
applicable set of criteria to categorize them properly.
