At 3:25 PM -0400 9/3/10, Ofer Inbar wrote:
I have nowhere else to go, and I think that is the typical situation for most households in the US. Even if the industry manages to get it together in terms of making clear what level of service they offer, I don't know that there's any way out of this conundrun other than legislation.
Internet providers say the high cost of running wire or fibre to the house or neighborhood is prohibitive. Telephone service used to be considered a regulated monopoly, and I have wondered if this model could work with outside plant, as a separate facility from Internet service. The idea being that a regulated or even municipal entity builds and maintains the outside plant, with any Internet provider able to use it to offer service. That way all details of the service are open to competition.
-- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only -------------- Randomly selected tag: --------------- But, something that only exists in thought is even better, as you can read for yourself in my favorite book of (English) verse and drawings, "The Space-Child's Mother Goose" (Verses by Frederick Winsor, Illustrations by Marian Parry, Simon and Schuster, 1958, unfortunately out of print): I have a pet hen whose name is Probable. She lays eggs in concept, being a sophist bird. But not in reality at all; those would be inferior eggs; for thought is superior to reality. --unknown _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf