Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 12:48:04PM -0800, William Herrin:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 12:39 PM Noah <noah@neo.co.tz> wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, 22:06 David Conrad via NANOG, <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> >> > 2. I'm not convinced that the service regions should be limited by the ICP to non-overlapping geographic territories.
> >>
> >> While geographic monopolies may have made sense in the past, it is unclear to me how/why they make sense today (unless the point is to create/perpetuate a cartel).
> >
> > I am curious as to what you mean by create/perpetuate a cartel?
>
> A group of geographical monopolies who between them have total control
> over what the essential service costs and whether anybody else can
> perform it. It might as well be the definition of a cartel.

And, to the extent that the service provider must excel.

Competition is healthy for all enterprise.