----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Helms" <khe...@zcorum.com>
> There are tons and tons and tons of organizations that will sell the > operator of a network content to sell to that operator's subscribers > directly. Most well known is the cable coop, who only exists to do just > that. The problem is that what's been proposed is that the network > operator be able to then turn around and offer those services as a whole > sale level to another operator, on the same physical but not not layer > 2, plant. That's what I don't think you can get contracts inked for. I proposed it, and I immediately scratched the idea, when I found out that my notional ISP clients could themselves get it from such vendors to offer at retail. So we can stop trying to make that *particular* type of glue now. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274