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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:56 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: > J. Oquendo wrote: > > > Let me be the punching bag for pondering this on NANOG... What about the > > roles of governments building a consortium with Teir-1 NSP's where those > > backbone Tiers are regulated and have predefined, strictly enforced > > rulesets they'd have to follow. The irony of this is that it sounds both > > like a nightmare and a dream. > > </snip> > This partitioning is exactly what we predicted in many meetings when > discussion the terms of the contracts. > > Markets are inefficient for infrastructure and tend toward monopoly. How does replacing non-profit organisations (which most public IX'es are) with government bodies and governmental legislation improve anything...? > Idiot laissez-faire pseudo-libertarians forget that all markets require > regulation and politics. But why government regulated instead of IX member regulated...? -- --- Erik Haagsman Network Architect We Dare BV Tel: +31(0)10-7507008 Fax: +31(0)10-7507005 http://www.we-dare.nl
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