[AusNOG] NBNco Website

[Karl Kloppenborg]

Hey Noggers,

Hopefully your all having a charming monday morning (those shaky coffee hands grasping to your soul trapped in a mug ;D )

So I was reading the NBNco website (http://www.nbnco.com.au) oh and how it does look rather like a template website...
After going through some pages I can't help but keep thinking that NBN is demoting us as ISP's and relabelling us as RSP's (Retail service providers)

Does anyone else see it this way?

http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition

But the thing that has me stumped is that I have never really heard this term before?

You go to Mr (average) joe down the street and ask him "Do you know what an ISP is?" 
He probably will answer it with something along these lines: "yeah mate, they provide internet to me, errm bigpond" 

Yet as a network engineer, I have yet to have actually used the term "RSP" (maybe I am just young and blonde?) 
But I am wondering about this whole Retail Service Provider thing? it makes me feel like we are a clothing shop, it makes me feel that the ISP community to the Government are what regional ISPs are to the big boy ISPs like telstra / optus / Internode etc etc.

Your thoughts please.

Cheers,
Karl Kloppenborg.



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