On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
MHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider (or as I prefer to call them, the Layer 1 infrastructure provider) must be prohibited from playing at the higher layers
A few years back Fred Goldstein proposed defining a Layer 1 infrastructure provider as a "LoopCo", where the local loop is passively provided to service providers to light it as they see fit. He even wrote draft legislation, where the incumbent LEC is divided into a "Facilities Entity" and a "Services Entity": http://www.ionary.com/separationbillproposal.htm That proposal generally requires something like a CLEC to light the wire locally, and makes CLECs viable again. He has also proposed requiring ILECs (and cablecos) to provide low-layer (layer 2, mostly) common carriage on an open basis; as filed in the current NN docket: http://www.ionary.com/separationbillproposal.htm j -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -