Re: Inter-provider communications (Re: nobody @home)

["Douglas A. Dever" <dever () hq oh verio net>]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Steve Sobol wrote:

> Another thought - I don't advocate lots of government involvement in the
> Internet arena, but perhaps it's time that our Congresscritters demanded
> that these big companies talk to each other. Those big guys want us to think
> that Internet transit is as reliable as dialtone.[0] It won't be as long as
> they continue to make it difficult to stop attacks...

IMHO, Government involvement in anything = bad.  How, exactly, do you
expect "Congresscritters" to force competitors to play nicely with each
other?  Internet access is not a public utility.  Let's not invivte the
regulators and legislators to start kicking around in the sandbox anymore
than they are already trying to.

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Douglas A. Dever    dever () verio net
Network Engineering Manager
Verio - http://www.verio.net