<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Almost none of the companies featured in the AusNOG community have carrier licenses.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most of the Government’s interference in the sector is targeted at Carriage Service Providers, which are not licensed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The State/Taxpayer has never once picked up the bill for a network security incident.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">PS, solo round the world sailors don’t cost anything to rescue, because the Navy and Coast Guard rescue crews are training all the time anyway; it just so happens that occasionally a training exercise happens to involve a real person.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Paul Wilkins <<a href="mailto:paulwilkins369@gmail.com" class="">paulwilkins369@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Probably when the Federal Government/ACMA grants you a carrier license. Compliance is a cost of doing business, rather than corner cutting, and having the state/taxpayer pick up the bill for the subsequent train wreck (think solo round the world sailors).<br class=""><br class=""></div>Kind regards<br class=""><br class=""></div>Paul Wilkins<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 September 2017 at 15:50, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank" class="">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Paul Wilkins <<a href="mailto:paulwilkins369@gmail.com" class="">paulwilkins369@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> I support the legislation. It's government's responsibility to protect our national infrastructure.<br class="">
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</span>When does your private infrastructure become national infrastructure?<br class="">
What latitude do you have to manage your own private infrastructure when it’s under the government’s “protection”?<br class="">
Who pays the bill for the protection?<br class="">
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- mark<br class="">
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