French Regulator to ask all your information about your Peering

Fri Mar 30 21:48:00 UTC 2012

-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org>
Organization: United Federation of Planets
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:37:51 -0700
To: 'NANOG list' <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: French Regulator to ask all your information about your
Peering

>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.

You may be right.
>
>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.

I spent time to talk to them ( hours honestly ) trying to explain what is
really the peering.

I don't get the point to ask for a "consultation" and less than the month
after, oblige people to do it ?

>
>"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".

This is my problem. In a near future, this will be the case. My guess is :
how to get some vat on top of this.
Today there is no prices, so no vat, we need to get some.

>Everyone on this list should be working _with_ the regulators
>wherever possible to educate them, and help shape regulations to
>meet your business needs.

Toons of hours for this ? Really ? Ok, I don't speak english very well, it
seems that it's the same for french.

> 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.
+1
>
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