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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">I have to agree with Skeeve.<br>
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IMHO it will only affect 'content companies' in the US. Comapnies such
as EBay, Google, Yahoo have managed to strike up peering relationships
with some large Tier 1's in the US. Few of them, if any, have been able
to do the same here in Australia.<br>
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Peering with any of the Tier 1's in Australia has been (to put it
mildly) difficult. There's no 'net neutrality' problem if the content
companies can't peer with the Tier 1's. As you can imagine, Google,
Yahoo and EBay have a great deal of influence and have managed over the
years to setup some pretty lucrative peering arrangements with some of
the larger Tier 1's in the US.<br>
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What is a concern is some of the comments made at Nanog this week at
the Peering BOF by Daniel Golding from Tier 1 Research. Given the
disruption that's been occuring with the US Tier 1's, there's been
information presented that a potential 'Tier 0' may be formed between
Verizon (inc. MCI) and AT&T (not too dissimilar with what occured
between TCNZ and Telstra Clear in NZ last year) and those two
de-peering themselves from the others. Although it's very 'out there'
the consequences are disturbing.<br>
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Here's a link to the Peering BOF at Nanog this week:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/norton.html">http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/norton.html</a><br>
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Cheers everyone.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
John De La Fuente<br>
Fish Telecom Wollongong<br>
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Deus Ex Machina wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Skeeve Stevens [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:skeeve@skeeve.org">skeeve@skeeve.org</a>] wrote:
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Bugger.
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not bugger. thank god its been rejected. the last thing you want is government regulating the
internet.
Vic
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