[AusNOG] Domestic Peering WAS: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?

[Chris Ricks]

On 09/11/12 10:51, Luke Iggleden wrote:
> On 9/11/12 10:42 AM, Chris Ricks wrote:
>> Late last year, I wrote to representatives from three political parties,
>> the ACCC and NBN Co on the issue of this braindead GoF arrangement.
>>
>> I received the following responses:
>>
>>   *  From Mr Conroy: Nothing
>>   *  From Mr Turnbull: I was subscribed to his mailing list
>>   *  From various people from The Greens: Thanks - we'll look into it!
>>   *  From the ACCC: Nothing
>>   *  From NBN Co: The ACCC looked at it again around 2007 and found no
>>     need to review the arrangement
>>
>> The fact that Conroy has made zero statements on the agreement whilst
>> making ignorant statements about additional submarine cable capacity
>> being something he'd consider the government getting involved in shows
>> that a complete examination of current market issues is simply not being
>> addressed by the people who should be doing so.
>>
>> - Chris
>
> Perhaps old skool, but perhaps we need to get a group of signatures
> from members of the AUSNOG group. It's difficult to get one
> person/company to make enough noise to get noticed.
>
> I suggest a suitable model for how it should be done be drawn up
> first. Leaving it up to the ACCC/Government to decide clearly is a fail.
>
> I'm glad Conroy didn't touch it, he'd probably legislate to send all
> our packets over his (proposed) new submarine cable and remove
> domestic peering altogether.
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Sounds like a plan to me. Personally, I quite like Simon Hackett's
proposal in that regard - thoughts?