[AusNOG] NBNco Website

[Andrew Oskam]

The name might be a tad...demeaning?...if you will but like the others 
have said, it's just a name.

The services/role of ISPs remain the same and nothing really changes so 
I wouldn't worry yourself with it.


Andrew Oskam

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On 21/06/10 12:37 PM, Tom Wright wrote:
> GWC!
>
> (Giant 'Who Cares'!)
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>
> -- Tom
>
> On 21/06/2010, at 11:35 AM, Karl Kloppenborg wrote:
>
>> 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 
>> <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?
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>> http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition
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>> 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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>> <ATT00001..txt>
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>
> Tom Wright
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