On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 17:13 -0700, Ed wrote: > Would anyone like to start a state initiative that limits our ISPs to > managing only the bandwidth of their service as provided to users > (enforcing Network Neutrality), require that all customers must be > provided only static IP addresses, and full port ranges* - with rare > technical & temporary exceptions granted by the corporation > commission, the option to the customer of IPv6 or IPv4 at no cost > diffrerential as of 2010, and finally that any customer that is > experiencing a "to the property line/to the wall" monopoly on wire or > optical line based service may elect to be covered under a corporation > commision managed, rate & service monoply controle. > > oh, and any physical network infrastructure may not be replaced unless > it has the identical regulatory regime and third party accesses as the > prior infrastructure, with the most liberal (open access) being > propogated forward into any improved infrastructure - with all prior > infrastructure (wire to fiber - this is you) grandfatherd > retroactively. Public services must be under a ratchet when it comes > to increasing access to the channels, there is no ethical reason to > improve our infrastructure and lock in our citizens into a monopoly. > this is simply incremental servitude and a public bad. a kickback at > best, a fraud on the state at worst. > > *if you need to have ports blocked, pay a bit extra, it's a service - > not the base condition. one of many that could be offered > > just sayin' this should not be a problem for Arizonans - and probably > the only thing that might save Arizona from becoming the west's most > backward state. > > or you can just be meat on the hoof for out of state interests. its > plantation technology and bad. ---- Ed, you raise an interesting issue but I'm not certain how useful/viable a citizens based referendum will be only because if history has shown us anything about the Arizona Legislature, they will simply overrule the citizens interests.
I believe that one must consider the admonitions by Larry Lessig, especially on the issue of 'the last mile' (google it, he has several speeches out there including some that have been linked/discussed on the list before). Net Neutrality is very much a current issue and of course the moneyed interests are lobbying hard for their views but mostly at the federal level because this is likely where the legislation would ultimately come from. Clearly left unstated is the fact that probably like everywhere else, there really is little competition for Internet services for the consumer. In Arizona, we have Cox cable and US West and neither seem motivated to actually compete on pricing so our service rates never go down even though the infrastructure has long since been built and their cost of providing Internet services have gone way down. There was an interesting story in Wilson, North Carolina where the city couldn't interest any of the providers so they built their own... http://www.greenlightnc.com/about/faq/ Of course this has proven to be cheap, free to the local citizens so the telcos and cable providers in North Carolina have freaked out and gotten legislation currently under consideration in the state to prevent any other cities from doing the same thing as they claim it to be anti-competitive. Of course the same could be said for the public options for health care where the insurance companies and the drug companies would stand to lose several hundred billion dollars of profit each year. It would be nice if we actually educated the consumers about these very real options and how industry limits our choices, is not competitive and in general, will cause America to ultimately fall behind other countries in the technology race since we no longer have the best/fastest network backbone. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
