:-> "Lamar" == Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> writes: > Charles Wyble charles@thewybles.com wrote: >> Lamar Owen wrote: >> > There are three ways that I know of (feel free to add to this list) to limit the events: >> > 1.) As you mentioned, regulation (or a government run and regulated backbone); >> Right. But what do we want this to look like? > Well, since I've already stepped out on a limb, here goes my try > at a rough outline of what such a regulation might look like > (with the caveat that this is likely too simple to actually make > it as a regulation): [...] > 2.) Allocate regulatory responsibility and enforcement authority > to an entity. I would suggest the FCC would be appropriate. > (This outline might then be the start of a 47 CFR 221 or > similar). [...] > 6.) Mandate that all transit-free Internet carriers shall > maintain peering arrangements with all other transit-free > Internet carriers to maintain a complete Internet (citing some > law that makes a 'complete Internet' a national security matter, > or somesuch, and belongs in 47 CFR 221 as a result). [...] > 8.) Authorize the issuance of a 'Tier 1 Internet Provider' > license (that must be renewed periodically, with documentation > supporting the Tier 1 status) to participating transit-free > Internet carriers (for a fee to cover the opex). > 9.) Authorize the FCC's Enforcement Bureau to enforce. err... do you realize there's about 6.4 * 10^9 other people outside of the USA, don't you? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | Network & System Administrator - INOC-DBA: 6762*PFC p.caci@seabone.net | Telecom Italia Sparkle - http://etabeta.noc.seabone.net/ Linux clarabella 2.6.15-29-server #1 SMP Mon Sep 24 17:37:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux