-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote:
> > The federal government clearly has the authority to manage > communications across the border of the country and between states but > it would be questionable if the federal government has the authority to > manage any communications completely within a state. Do they have the > authority to tell me to turn down a connection that terminates within > the same state that I am in? > > Sure, they would have the authority to tell me to turn down any > international tunnels I might have running or a point-to-point that > crosses state lines but I doubt they have the authority to tell me to > turn down a cross-connect terminating in the same building. That would > be the jurisdiction of state authority, not federal. > I am making no argument to the contrary. But I should caution you that there are forces at work currently which are making motions to federalize this authority. I think we all should be deeply concerned -- some of this pandering/politicizing/scar-mongering can have ill effects. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNS5kHq1pz9mNUZTMRAv3oAKCsa61VtcyKOiVWqGZ2mJX4eFScuACffSWB thx5VA2MbLZyGn/GzH3Qz2M= =oKF9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/