Re: Nanog Mentioned in TED Video: Jonathan Zittrain

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > > On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
> > >
> > > > Remember when youtube went down?
> > > > Mr. Zittrain briefly mentions nanog during his TED talk in July  
> > > > 2009.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html
> > >
> > > Been discussed.
> > >
> > > He's obviously wrong about some things.  No one does anything  
> > > without getting paid.  But he is kinda right in some ways too.
> > Lots of us actually do lots of things without getting paid.
>
> Mea culpa!  You are (most obviously) correct.
>
> I meant to say "no one passes a packet without getting paid",  
> specifically in response to his passing the beer in the stadium  
> analogy.
Hurricane Electric offers free IPv6 transit to virtually anyone. We  
also provide IPv4 transit for free to a number of non-profit and
community benefit organizations.

> While it is true there are a few packets passed without payment, I'm  
> pretty sure it's 0% of the total, to several decimal places.
Maybe 2 or 3 decimal places, but, I honestly don't have the exact  
statistic.

Owen

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