Paul WALL wrote:
route-views will confirm that Netflix peer with a number of access providers, including the large ones; press releases related to "OpenConnect" imply that no money is passing hands.
You'll note that, in spite of his wordy replies, never once does Richard Bennett disclose who is funding him and AEI. Call it whatever you want, I think "lobbyist" is the best word choice.
It's pretty well established that AEI is primarily a right-wing, conservative, pro-business think tank - with a mission statement that starts: "The American Enterprise Institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise." (http://www.aei.org/about/) AEI policy studies are pretty consistently anti-regulation. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra