On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-30 Thread Daniel Golding
I hesitate to respond to Mr. Bennett. But since he has asserted my opinion on this matter... There is no reasonable reading of the early FCC Open Internet proposed rulemaking that would lead to a ban on paid peering. It takes a number of logical leaps and a great deal of inference to even get clos

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: > So when you said: "I can only hope the holdouts will "see the light" before > the weight of government crashes down on them" you were positing an unlikely > outcome? I wasn't positing any specific government action. I opine only that the c

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Bennett
So when you said: "I can only hope the holdouts will "see the light" before the weight of government crashes down on them" you were positing an unlikely outcome? For what purpose, trolling? BTW, I'm not a lobbyist, but you already knew that. RB On 7/29/14, 4:12 PM, William Herrin wrote: On

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: > It's interesting that an FCC ban on paid peering (or "on-net transit" if you > prefer that expression) is now seen as a plausible and even likely outcome > of the FCC's net neutrality expedition. I don't think an FCC ban on paid peering is

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Bennett
It's interesting that an FCC ban on paid peering (or "on-net transit" if you prefer that expression) is now seen as a plausible and even likely outcome of the FCC's net neutrality expedition. It wasn't that long ago that a number of NANOGers insisted that such action by the FCC was totally out

On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread William Herrin
Howdy folks, It seems to me that we're moving in a direction where either ratioless, high-capacity settlement-free peering will be a industry requirement exercised voluntarily, or where some heavy-handed government regulation will compel some kind of interconnection that the holdouts find even les