<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Brad Gould <<a href="mailto:bradley@internode.com.au">bradley@internode.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/350209,nbn-co-to-reserve-data-port-for-government.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/350209,nbn-co-to-reserve-data-port-for-government.aspx</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div>Hmm. So everyone is going to run two LANs in their house, one for themselves and </div><div>one for government services? </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder how much bandwidth is going to be available for the government services when I </div><div>buy a 100/40 Mbps service from an RSP on "my" port?</div><div><br></div><div>(same thing that'll happen to the bandwidth for my "smart meter", I suppose)</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the Government would be able to choose a different tack for service delivery if</div><div>it wasn't so terrified of the internet. We're going to be approaching a world in which </div><div>all communications, entertainment, and remote service delivery is carried on the Internet</div><div><i>except</i> those bits of communications, entertainment and remote service delivery that</div><div>come from the Commonwealth, because the Commonwealth is allergic deploying services</div><div>across the same transport everyone else uses.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>