[AusNOG] OT: Regulator rings the changes for telcos, isps

[Daniel Hood]

Sorry, the last statement sounded very negative... Not wanting to flame SP's.

I don't mind at all having to deal with Telco's either and usually
defend them, when the "kick your telco" convo's arise. It takes a lot
of organisation and technical expertise to keep these networks up and
running as they are and you guys don't have the choice when outages
arise. A lot of the Aussie SP's are making quite a lot more effort
then the "let's just scrap by" attempt.

Keep it up!

Regards,

Daniel

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Mark Newton <newton at internode.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 21/04/2010, at 10:41 PM, Sean K. Finn wrote:
>
> Exactly what problem is this fixing? How many rouge network operators or
> ISP’s even exist here?
>
> Understand that we have a Government who perceives telcos as enemies
> who need to be vanquished, and who will use legislation as weaponry to
> reach that goal.
> They have a picture in their minds about what an ISP/Telco is supposed to
> be.  Our industry currently doesn't match that picture, largely because they
> don't know what they're doing and they've just made the picture up.  Their
> world view says that Telcos are lazy and recalcitrant for making no moves
> towards conforming with that picture over the last two decades, and since
> we're clearly not going to do it voluntarily they will continue to attack
> this
> industry through regulation until we line up with the picture, or
> until they're
> made to stop for some other reason.
> Anyway, it's easy to attack us, because Telcos never fight back.  Free kicks
> all 'round.
> Fundamentally, they view us as gatekeepers to the network, with a
> responsibility to control it.
> From that standpoint, they hold us responsible for our customers making
> uneducated decisions against their best interests;  For our customers
> breaching copyright;  For our customers viewing websites that offend them;
> For our customers running insecure malware-infested systems at home.
> In each instance we say, "We try our best to help them, but at the end of
> the day we're just conduits, providing internet access. Customers decide
> how they use it, we have no control over that."
> And, at a very deep level, this Government simply doesn't agree.
>   - mark
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