Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Dec 19, 2010, at 5:50 PM, George Bonser wrote:

> > Personally I think the right answer is to enforce a legal separation
> > between the layer 1 and layer 3 infrastructure providers, and require
> > that the layer 1 network provide non-discriminatory access to any
> > company who wishes to provide IP to the end user. But that would take
> a
> > lot of work to implement, and there are billions of dollars at work
> > lobbying against it, so I don't expect it to happen any time soon. :)
> >
> > --
> > Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-
> > gerbil.net/ras
> > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1
> > 2CBC)
>
>
> I agree.  The "highway" model of commerce is better than the "railroad"
> model of commerce.

Australia is actually experimenting with something like that as we speak.

Owen