-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
The federal government clearly has the authority to manage communications across the border of the country and between states but it would be questionable if the federal government has the authority to manage any communications completely within a state. Do they have the authority to tell me to turn down a connection that terminates within the same state that I am in?
Sure, they would have the authority to tell me to turn down any international tunnels I might have running or a point-to-point that crosses state lines but I doubt they have the authority to tell me to turn down a cross-connect terminating in the same building. That would be the jurisdiction of state authority, not federal.
I am making no argument to the contrary. But I should caution you that there are forces at work currently which are making motions to federalize this authority. I think we all should be deeply concerned -- some of this pandering/politicizing/scar-mongering can have ill effects. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNS5kHq1pz9mNUZTMRAv3oAKCsa61VtcyKOiVWqGZ2mJX4eFScuACffSWB thx5VA2MbLZyGn/GzH3Qz2M= =oKF9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/