In a message written on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:20:10PM +0000, Raphael MAUNIER wrote:
You were @GPF last week, when Martin asked : Who want this to be regulated ? And Who want to have his peering controled ? why you didn't raise your hand ?
In my memory, no one did.
It's also fearmongering. I am not in favor of the type of regulation that Martin alluded to in his question. However, I also do not think all regulation is bad. As long as the industry's attitude is to avoid the regulator at all costs the regulator will make decisions without information and consultation, and those decisions will be bad. "Regulation" could be as benign as "Anyone who peers in France must publically post their peering policy" to something as sinister as "the regulator will dictate all peering arrangements to all parties". Everyone on this list should be working _with_ the regulators wherever possible to educate them, and help shape regulations to meet your business needs. Other industries have done this for years. Lobbiests get paid millions of dollars to shape government regulations in favor of their employer; peering and more importantly regulation of the Internet is no different. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/