Muni Fiber and Politics

Sat Aug 2 17:26:09 UTC 2014

I don't pretend to be the original person with this idea. But I would very much like to see it implemented. 

> On Aug 1, 2014, at 13:24, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> MHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider (or as I
>> prefer to call them, the Layer 1 infrastructure provider) must be
>> prohibited from playing at the higher layers
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> A few years back Fred Goldstein proposed defining a Layer 1 infrastructure provider as a "LoopCo", where the local loop is passively provided to service providers to light it as they see fit.  He  even wrote draft legislation, where the incumbent LEC is divided into a "Facilities Entity" and a "Services Entity":
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> http://www.ionary.com/separationbillproposal.htm
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> That proposal generally requires something like a CLEC to light the wire locally, and makes CLECs viable again.  
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> He has also proposed requiring ILECs (and cablecos) to provide low-layer (layer 2, mostly) common carriage on an open basis; as filed in the current NN docket:
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> http://www.ionary.com/separationbillproposal.htm
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