[AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internetand mobile content after the 20th of january 2008

[Mark Newton]

On 02/01/2008, at 1:32 PM, Bevan Slattery wrote:
>
> Wholesalers will start to provide Government Approved Clean Feed
> IP/Transit Service and Normal IP/Transit Service.  We (iSeek) did that
> with Optus in 1999, where ISP's could get a filtered service via Optus
> PVC anywhere in Australia and a normal feed via another Optus PVC.   
> This
> meant that the ISP's (particularly small) did not have to directly
> invest in the filtering infrastructure.

Smirk.  Another instance of the market already having provided
a solution which the Government wishes to mandate.

"Hey, Optus!  How successful was that service offering?  Much demand?
Did you recoup your costs, by any chance?" :-)

   - mark

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