From: Patrick Giagnocavo (no email)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 08:58:45 EST
Marc Farnum Rendino wrote:
> Folks -
>
> At some point, a society decides that X is important enough to the
> society as a whole, that something official is in the overall
> interest. Roads, immigration, whatever. That it's necessary to require
> that some things be done (or not be done).
>
> Peering may very well not be in that category, however I think it's
> worth discussion.
>
> - Marc
My response would be to point out the behavior of the incumbents in the
telcom industry vs. the upstarts; which are the ones responsible for
most of the innovation that actually got delivered to the market?
Regulations raise barriers to entry; which favors the incumbent over the
upstart.
Roads are a bad analogy and will only serve to obscure the discussion.
--Patrick
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