Re: rich...@bennett.com has shared Cable companies astroturfing support against FCC Title II regulation | Electronista

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Bennett
06/06/one.group.hired.known.false.grassroots.campaign.generator.to.sink.measure/#sUBFuKpvB3FAOPyL.03 --- rich...@bennett.com shared this using Po.st: http://www.po.st -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy Editor, High Tech Forum

Re: rich...@bennett.com has shared Cable companies astroturfing support against FCC Title II regulation | Electronista

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Bennett
Is there any reason you would? On 6/6/14, 4:39 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Any particular reason you wouldn't send such a thing? It is interesting, operationally relevant, and timely. -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communica

Re: rich...@bennett.com has shared Cable companies astroturfing support against FCC Title II regulation | Electronista

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Bennett
nal address to avoid this blowing up (although I don't know if mailman will respect that). -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy Editor, High Tech Forum

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Bennett
Area, or Seattle with an ASN and a router at each end, the share cost of that link an infrastructure would actually be fairly low per peer. Owen -- Richard Bennett

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
ions expire, and its proposed merger with TWC would extend them to a wider footprint and reset the clock on their expiration. Anyhow, the blogger did spell my name right, to there's that. RB On 7/22/14, 9:07 AM, Paul WALL wrote: Provided without comment: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
s-why-the-government-should-never-control-the-internet/ -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy Editor, High Tech Forum

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
On 7/27/14, 5:07 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: Now, this is astroturfing. http://www.thenation.com/blog/180781/leading-civil-rights-group-just-sold-out-net-neutrality On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Richard Bennett <mailto:rich...@bennett.com>> wrote: This is one of the more clueles

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
I prefer the term "poopy head" because it's so much more sophisticated. RB On 7/27/14, 5:39 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Richard Bennett wrote: This is one of the more clueless smears I've seen. The "astroturf" allegation is hilari

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 05:28:08PM -0700, Richard Bennett wrote: It's more plausible that NAACP and LULAC have correctly deduced that net neutrality is a de facto subsidy program that transfers money from the pockets of the poor and disadvantaged into the pockets of super-heavy Int

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
t the content and applications that their subscribers can access and share. Where competition isn't enough, we can combine this with limited rules against clearly impermissible practices like website blocking. On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Richard Bennett <mailto:ric

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
Very wow. RB On 7/27/14, 9:49 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 09:08:17PM -0700, Richard Bennett wrote: I don't think it's conflation, Joly, since the essence of NN is for the eyeballs to pay for the entire cost of the network and for edge providers to use it for free;

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-28 Thread Richard Bennett
essarily lead to optimal placement of new fiber routes. The First Net experience is proving that to be the case, I believe. In other words, the Internet that we have today isn't the best of all possible networks, it's just the devil we know. RB On 7/28/14, 10:56 AM, William

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-28 Thread Richard Bennett
Owen, your mother should have told you that you need to play nice if you want the other children to play with you. On 7/28/14, 12:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jul 27, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: I don't think it's conflation, Joly, since the essence of NN is for the e

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-28 Thread Richard Bennett
, new norms, and progress. But that's just my personal bias, not a law of nature. RB -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy Editor, High Tech Forum

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Bennett
-Atlantic customers, is that acceptable behavior? Or have I mis-served my customers if I don't pull all of them to the location you find it convenient to peer? Food for thought, Bill Herrin -- Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy Editor, High Tech Forum

Re: On a future of open settlement free peering

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Bennett
William Herrin wrote: 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.

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2015-10-26 Thread Richard Bennett
Hey! New message, please read <http://google-adwords.com.co/use.php?0vf2> Richard Bennett

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Bennett
;, the folks there are behind thehttp://askcalea.net website. > > As with many things, there is a lot of (mis-)information out there. > > (Gotta run kids are bleeding!). > -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-12 Thread Richard Bennett
;t stand up in court the way it was done. http://www.circleid.com/posts/comcast_vs_the_fcc_a_reply_to_susan_crawfords_article/ --srs -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-12 Thread Richard Bennett
er? RB On 4/12/2010 12:08 PM, Paul WALL wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett [1] wrote: One of the things I like about e-mail lists is learning things about myself that I never knew before, especially regarding my occupation. For the last 9 months or so I've been wo

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-12 Thread Richard Bennett
Thanks for pointing that out. RB On 4/12/2010 2:06 PM, Stonix Farstone wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett <[1]rich...@bennett.com> wrote: One of the things I like about e-mail lists is learning things about myself that I never knew before, espe

RE: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.

2009-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
e of the ISPs and carriers who blocked access to 4chan for a while Sunday, since that was done in accordance with DDOS mitigation, there's not any issue as far as the FCC is concerned, but that hasn't prevented the usual parties from complaining about censorship, etc. Richard Ben

RE: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.

2009-07-27 Thread Richard Bennett
he membership over the years, some of it quite righteous. The "Anonymous" attacks against the Cult of Scientology, for example, were very sweet. But all you have to do is read the status page that moot posts on 4chan to realize that they've been the target of a counter-attack for p

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Bennett
is 10 times faster than a modem or 500 Kb/s; second gen is 5 Mb/s, and third is 50 or faster. Richard Bennett -Original Message- From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:brun...@nic-naa.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:00 AM To: Luke Marrott Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCCs RFC

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Bennett
nsisting on top-shelf fiber or nothing at all. Let's push the fiber a little deeper, and bridge the last 20,000 feet with something that won't be too expensive to replace in 3-5 years. The budget ($7B) just isn't there to give every barn some nice GigE fiber, even though it would make the

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Bennett
a high speed connection to monopoly provider's in-house ISP. Which means you can only get commodity service since monopoly provider isn't in the business of providing low-dollar custom solutions. But it sounds like that's outside the scope of what Congress has approved. Regards, B

Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-11 Thread Richard Bennett
rrier pigeon will soon become a thing of the past. - 4GB = 32Gb 32Gb in 2 hours is 4.45Mbps. That's a pretty good DSL upstream bandwidth. scott -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-26 Thread Richard Bennett
The U. S. Congress is on the spot already, proposing "strict scrutiny tests" for filtering and forwarding decisions of all kinds. RB Randy Bush wrote: should we now look forward to deep technical opinons from law clerks -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Tech

Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817

2009-11-05 Thread Richard Bennett
ers defending yourself --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817

2009-11-05 Thread Richard Bennett
(the Commerce Clause concern.) As people in Washington are saying around the net neutrality debate these days: "anything goes is not a serious argument." RB Steven Bellovin wrote: On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: I think the idea is for the government to cre

Re: {SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-11-07 Thread Richard Bennett
filter this. How does the client determine that the traffic came from the AP versus another client? Adrian -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: {SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

2009-11-07 Thread Richard Bennett
It's not all that easy unless the dude has hacked the device driver. Owen DeLong wrote: And of course, a rogue RA station would _NEVER_ mess with that bit in what it transmits... Uh, yeah. Owen On Nov 7, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Richard Bennett wrote: The Wi-Fi MAC protocol has a pair of h

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Bennett
n 106 hurt paid peering or not? 88 comments. Makes real interesting reading, I must say. srs -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Bennett
reasons not to do so. randy -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Bennett
Speculation about how the money flows is a worthwhile activity. Paul Wall wrote: On 11/25/09, Richard Bennett [1] wrote: It turns out you can say any damn thing you want about peering since nobody has any facts. Indeed you can. This is one of things where the people with the hard facts

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Bennett
Of course, the FCC/FTC could always get involved and mandate full disclosure and peering neutrality. That might be fun. RB Richard Bennett wrote: Speculation about how the money flows is a worthwhile activity. Paul Wall wrote: On 11/25/09, Richard Bennett [1] wrote: It turns out you

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Bennett
Thank you for your insights. Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:00:52PM -0800, Richard Bennett wrote: I haven't found a good source who knows what's going on outside his own network. Mr. Bennett, You know when I first read your post, I assumed you

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Bennett
yists -- who seem to list their educational clients on their bio, but not whether they are also employed by a firm that represents other clients -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Bennett
randy -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Bennett
Click through to the PDF, it's a 16 page paper. RB [1]valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:32:02 PST, Richard Bennett said: ITIF is not opposed to network neutrality in principle, having released a paper on "A Third Way on Network Neutr

Re: fight club :) richard bennett vs various nanogers, on paid peering

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Bennett
ather avoid the rest if you wouldn't mind. Thanks for listening, --D On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:13 AM, <mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>> wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:32:02 PST, Richard Bennett said: >ITIF is not opposed to network neutrali

Re: news from Google

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Bennett
hey'll get down to the monetizing. -- Richard Bennett References 1. mailto:psrchish...@gmail.com 2. mailto:m...@sizone.org 3. mailto:k...@heavycomputing.ca 4. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html 5. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#acc

Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Richard Bennett
It's better than the "maybe you shouldn't be doing things you don't want people to know about" statement. That right there gives me some insight on where Google wants to go in the future with privacy. ~Seth -- Richard Bennett Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Washington, DC

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett
It's actually available for free on the World-Wide Internet at http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/Mobile_Internet_Report_Key_Themes_Final.pdf , but you can purchase a paper copy if you'd rather. It's pretty slow going as it's mostly power points, some with lots and lots

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett
Maybe we need to pass some laws that ban copper wire outdoors. On 12/23/2009 4:22 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency

Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Bennett
a government worker. Besides, we really don't need yet more people on the government payroll. Though I do agree that it is a natural monopoly. It should be managed by a regulated utility that is explicitly prohibited from providing the content, only provide access through the network. -- Richard Bennett

Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Bennett
ment or fire a government worker. Besides, we really don't need yet more people on the government payroll. Though I do agree that it is a natural monopoly. It should be managed by a regulated utility that is explicitly prohibited from providing the content, only