from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering

Mon Jun 16 08:14:26 UTC 2003

In message 
<Pine.GSO.4.44.0306151908430.29014-100000 at clifden.donelan.com>, Sean 
Donelan <sean at donelan.com> writes
>If I think
>a grocery store in Ireland is charging too much for potatoes, can I
>ask the Irish government to order the grocery store to change its price
>on potatoes?

If the grocery store had a monopoly on selling potatoes in Ireland, and 
after an investigation into the costs of supplying potatoes to the 
retail market it was shown that they were profiteering, you might find 
they'd say "yes". Although such mechanisms are normally reserved for 
utilities, and the Internet just came of age in as much as governments 
now regard it as an essential utility. Another recent example being:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-714188,00.html
-- 
Roland Perry