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 <r...@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