[8597] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tansin A. Darcos & Company)
Thu Nov 25 07:38:04 1993
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 07:29:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tansin A. Darcos & Company" <0005066432@mcimail.com>
Reply-To: "Tansin A. Darcos & Company" <0005066432@mcimail.com>
To: "Martin L. Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>,
>From: Paul Robinson <TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM>
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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"Martin L. Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>, writes:
> I think there is a fundamental difference between a CIX with a
> "a very positive set of connection rules" and the FCC.
>
> The CIX is a voluntary organization with rules that it creates on
> its own, I equate this to the way GAAP accounting standards are
> created. The FCC sets involuntary regulations from a much more
> politicized bureaucracy.
Hate to break it to you Marty ol' boy, :) but the Federal Government has
given the Generally Accepted Accounting Practices and the rules set up by
the Accounting Board the force and effect of law. As it stands, the GAAP
and other rules are as much "involuntary regulation" as anything created
by a government agency.
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Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
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