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Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:56 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
Let me be the punching bag for pondering this on NANOG... What about the roles of governments building a consortium with Teir-1 NSP's where thosebackbone Tiers are regulated and have predefined, strictly enforcedrulesets they'd have to follow. The irony of this is that it sounds bothlike a nightmare and a dream.Congratulations, you've reinvented the Internet. This is exactly what we did when we built the original (NSFnet). It worked!
I would argue the NSFnet would not scale to today's Internet. Not to mention today's Internet has the added value of not sucking up 90% of NSF's budget.
We specified regional interconnection. If you wanted to connect, that's where you had to connect, and you were required to take the traffic fromeverybody else at the point of interconnection. No arguments. This partitioning is exactly what we predicted in many meetings when discussion the terms of the contracts.
I'm wondering why "this partitioning" - predicted or not - is a "bad thing"?
Markets are inefficient for infrastructure and tend toward monopoly.
Strangely, the Internet has not tended toward monopoly. If you think otherwise, you have been reading too many press releases.
Idiot laissez-faire pseudo-libertarians forget that all markets requireregulation and politics.
Politics are a natural part of human interaction. Regulation sometimes follows.
The Internet is fairly unregulated. It works fairly well - better than many regulated industries.
I guess I'm missing your point? -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: Regulatory intervention, (continued)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Ross Hosman (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Daniel Golding (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Robert E . Seastrom (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Sean Donelan (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Henry Linneweh (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Erik Haagsman (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Owen DeLong (Oct 07)
- Re: Regulatory intervention Michael . Dillon (Oct 10)
- Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?) Erik Haagsman (Oct 07)