________________________________________ From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ofer Inbar [cos@xxxxxxxxx] P.S. My neighborhood is about as far from being a tech backwater as it is possible to be in the world. Yet I still have only one viable option for high speed Internet. It's a business & law problem, not a technology problem. _______________________________________________ It's a traditional monopoly problem. Market-based mechanisms don't work if there isn't vigorous competition. The traditional solution is "common carrier" regulation of "natural monopolies". At the least, we need to define data carriage as a "common carrier" business, where the carrier must provide service on a non-discriminatory basis at published rates. (Whatever happened to the dream of multiple WiMax providers?) Dale _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf