On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:56 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
J. Oquendo 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 those backbone Tiers are regulated and have predefined, strictly enforced rulesets they'd have to follow. The irony of this is that it sounds both like a nightmare and a dream.
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This partitioning is exactly what we predicted in many meetings when discussion the terms of the contracts.
Markets are inefficient for infrastructure and tend toward monopoly.
How does replacing non-profit organisations (which most public IX'es are) with government bodies and governmental legislation improve anything...?
Idiot laissez-faire pseudo-libertarians forget that all markets require regulation and politics.
But why government regulated instead of IX member regulated...? -- --- Erik Haagsman Network Architect We Dare BV Tel: +31(0)10-7507008 Fax: +31(0)10-7507005 http://www.we-dare.nl