Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Mon Dec 20 04:38:32 UTC 2010

On Dec 19, 2010, at 5:50 PM, George Bonser wrote:

>> Personally I think the right answer is to enforce a legal separation
>> between the layer 1 and layer 3 infrastructure providers, and require
>> that the layer 1 network provide non-discriminatory access to any
>> company who wishes to provide IP to the end user. But that would take
> a
>> lot of work to implement, and there are billions of dollars at work
>> lobbying against it, so I don't expect it to happen any time soon. :)
>> 
>> --
>> Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-
>> gerbil.net/ras
>> GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1
>> 2CBC)
> 
> 
> I agree.  The "highway" model of commerce is better than the "railroad"
> model of commerce.
> 
> 

Australia is actually experimenting with something like that as we speak.

Owen