[ NNSquad ] Re: UDP Wars

[Kelly Setzer <setzer@liquidchicken.org>]

Lauren Weinstein wrote:
> [...]
> I personally do not believe that the current largely ad hoc and
> unregulated landscape in this sphere can yield appropriate long-term
> solutions, especially from the standpoint of helping to assure
> reasonable operational parity for customers in different locations
> and using different ISPs (which are making independent and often
> proprietary decisions regarding their network management policies).
>
> It's time that we stop looking at the Internet only as a patchwork
> of independent, typically unregulated networks, and more in terms of
> an overall interconnected system that may need some level and forms of
> oversight similar to those long considered appropriate for other
> critical utility-related functions.
That limits the debate to one narrowly defined viewpoint.  It presumes 
that one party, the consumers, should have a predominant influence over 
an entire business sector.  It also presumes that business entities must 
be subjected to some sort of government sponsored organization in order 
to secure consumer influence of the marketplace.

While I think a very large percentage of the participants on this list 
agree with those presumptions, excluding large chunks of the problem 
space and solution space does not seem beneficial.  If it is the goal of 
NNSquad to adopt this viewpoint, perhaps that should be clearly stated 
so that those that agree can proceed and those who disagree can continue 
their debate elsewhere.

Kelly