Re: [sig-policy] Article of possible interest to the community
On 22/08/2011, at 3:48 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> I claimed "I believe we're now in the phase where the incumbent
>>> monopolies and their supporters attempt to actively discourage use of
>>> new disruptive entrants" and that I saw parallels with how PTT
>>> monopolies behaved in the past.
>> I for one read this as referring to the RIRs - it's hard to see what
>> else it could refer to.
>
> it could be interpreted at&t, comcast, dtag, verizon, ...
>
>> The RIRs are bottom-up policy organisations in their very nature.
>> Whatever faults they have in their policies come largely because that
>> process inherently reflects the foibles of the participating
>> stakeholders, not from the arrogance of those in charge.
>
> while i am less sanguine, i have been saying for years that having
> restrictive allocation policies based on routing table growth are, in
> fact, the incumbents restricting entry into the market because it would
> cost them money.
Ah, I now understand both your comments above. From my perspective, the sway that the incumbents have over RIR policy is much less than would be necessary if that were true - there are too few compared to the overall number of LIRs who engage in policy discussion. How would you feel about a slightly different statement - that because there are very few people outside of the LIR community engaged in policy discussion (or very few "consumer" LIRs if you wish), the LIR community overall acts like a single incumbent?
Jay
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