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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Late last year, I wrote to
representatives from three political parties, the ACCC and NBN Co
on the issue of this braindead GoF arrangement.<br>
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I received the following responses:<br>
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<ul>
<li>From Mr Conroy: Nothing</li>
<li>From Mr Turnbull: I was subscribed to his mailing list</li>
<li>From various people from The Greens: Thanks - we'll look
into it!</li>
<li>From the ACCC: Nothing</li>
<li>From NBN Co: The ACCC looked at it again around 2007 and
found no need to review the arrangement</li>
</ul>
<p>The fact that Conroy has made zero statements on the agreement
whilst making ignorant statements about additional submarine
cable capacity being something he'd consider the government
getting involved in shows that a complete examination of current
market issues is simply not being addressed by the people who
should be doing so.<br>
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<p>- Chris<br>
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On 09/11/12 10:34, Luke Iggleden wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:509C417E.4090803@sisgroup.com.au" type="cite">On
9/11/12 10:23 AM, Brad Gould wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Just because no money changes hands, does
not mean its free.
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Port costs. Interconnect costs. Network complexity costs.
Monitoring costs.
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How much does establishing a PoP in another DC to pick up
peering cost?
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Sure, you can soak most of that into your normal ongoings and
operations, but its there.
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Brad
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Even the beer to get the handshake costs money too. Nobody is
arguing the fact that there is a cost to peer.
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A gig-e of domestic peering, bi-lateral or multilateral, when
you're only paying for port costs, noc etc (+beer), IS currently
cheaper and will be for a long time to come with the current Go4
arrangements.
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Seems the majority of the responses are happy to just accept the
status quo here, even though the rest of the world does not do
this?
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The ACCC mandated the legislation? The ACCC can change it? Finding
a metric that everyone agrees on seems difficult though due to the
incumbents.
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Personally, I like handshakes.
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