On 4 sep 2010, at 07:06, "Randall Gellens" <rg+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This is what for example us happening in Sweden all over the place. Most well known project in Sweden is the City of Stockholm where STOKAB is providing dark fiber (as a product) and nothing more. In a similar way many villages and individual home owners dig down their own fiber. I am sure it happens in other parts of the world as well. Patrik _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf