From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk1-x729.google.com (mail-qk1-x729.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::729]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C7E13CB55; Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qk1-x729.google.com with SMTP id dw4so3924542qkb.10; Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:46:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1680097605; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=VB9p0RK3p5eROl72xYEM3KQEY5Mp+uHaDvUL+osW2/8=; b=LidgfiYJQ4hzSoVF6gff6M86ckdA626L4l8IdxeglYRz+FULvfm5/lNn4Feb18AH78 SsBpXGJAsKrq1Qn92RUKuMAZfLHbpOLLTrIALo7qiUXVrY8Fed4PgQBuGohTJFlZfmPL wuUNhefE+sTP0nwe5n1CBSqHNVUwDFyTdWdDcXz196sdgE3xZX88wD8voRQoAJdZnal/ 4qECk3bKEDExm3kpPahMhyDCDJhAhop4G46X1lUYDBHc3lv1PX+iuLu5+Jj/lkOAoZlS aKA1ZBc2tvySxS9oMXckAhCvW2i4iOnMFkLXp0F2ry3yHWKWt2EQlephKG8COlPo3BYS Q4Xg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1680097605; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=VB9p0RK3p5eROl72xYEM3KQEY5Mp+uHaDvUL+osW2/8=; b=WHqBjpVTzL5seL24kMFj/tiu5J9YFz+r4KK/e7SrQySMhkIJkz0VT1ejVwpFe3o72s oTV/fCUjpOrWOy+EnqQVssEY49CbWE9An+/lLx/qUl9QpPtGLtqIsjCM6tbgnvdyr+r5 OH6JX+iCIOkejHRqcPyv+W+rhGJ2jKoDBHS26qJXbaFxPGw3Qc/BTO057zczkrRS/wPu V3Rnal1o8gp2YyuEZgIiiTO1xjO6h/VCj3p6hAt308qFplKGAat7yp/BpWHX68Y4z9n1 J7y0L2AwCQHdfmRayKklmOhMlgdut8E3T46sXs2Gr2sQu1l/lJSqSYF3m6vO7SZtiOCg 39ng== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKVv9f7FW3DRcUm2sIjtVatGiv1alLWOaap5/zNPHHhIEDOpsa6u kSje2qhdgpo0QxZ1j0kMLdikvpNU/37uIRqpFjs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set+Yh+UMYOnw9wN1URg7EuEH0hSljl2FPctRes+WYF1KiJP6jeVyKHFNWBSLnssVaadz53fKj1tljQEh4saOTYQ= X-Received: by 2002:a37:6386:0:b0:745:da3d:cd0a with SMTP id x128-20020a376386000000b00745da3dcd0amr4961264qkb.12.1680097604792; Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:46:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1d6c10c9a692bb3f2869fb1b40fa449a@rjmcmahon.com> <569691b3e7dfc57bbf98c4fc168fc6cf@rjmcmahon.com> <2885829.1679221616@dyas> <20230321001019.GA4531@sunf68.rd.bbc.co.uk> <4295238B-FA57-49B6-B57B-78FFB2603B90@gmx.de> <8301258b8fffa18bd14279bff043dd03@rjmcmahon.com> <43bcbc338aecb44a1bef49489ab6f9c8@rjmcmahon.com> <60e70b637df76234639780ab08f25d82@rjmcmahon.com> <9edd011a1a6615470b34e0837896a15f@rjmcmahon.com> <6EB62755-EF23-44BA-B2FF-66FAC708653D@gmx.de> <6qnq34os-3qss-s4q7-s286-2s49q890q920@ynat.uz> <27aea5070eeb1b1535f3e75489295feb@rjmcmahon.com> <08526EAC-7EA3-4BFA-A231-B2935E09C8AC@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <08526EAC-7EA3-4BFA-A231-B2935E09C8AC@gmx.de> From: Frantisek Borsik Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:46:08 +0200 Message-ID: To: Sebastian Moeller Cc: rjmcmahon , Larry Press , David Lang , dan , libreqos , Dave Taht via Starlink , bloat Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000ebf75405f80a341b" Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Starlink] On fiber as critical infrastructure w/Comcast chat X-BeenThere: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General list for discussing Bufferbloat List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:46:45 -0000 --000000000000ebf75405f80a341b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Guys, tell me why - besides that it's just the usual, human nature - why every discussion here ends with our version of the "reductio ad Hitlerum", which is, in my mind, more or less subtle attack on capitalism, entrepreneurship, corporations, market and the like. Also, more importantly, we all want to close that goddamn digital divide. And we will never gonna do it with fiber ONLY...not to mention FiWi. Also, if there are some fruitful attempts to build some community broadband, be it fiber, wireless or mix...we end up with "yeah, but it's not done in big cities, just in some rural areas." We need to close the digital divide - which is, mostly, locate in the rural areas, e.g. to bring broadband where it's not or where it's not sufficient and there is a lot of tools in the toolbox, not just fiber, and every single one of them has its place and should be used and funded by the grant money. The majority of these places need to be served quickly and on the best effort a.k.a what is actually possible and feasible in their respective territory, terrain...and on on the BS notion "GIGABIT or NOTHING", or even 100/20 or nothing, when 25/5 would be more than enough, for most of the cases, in the foreseeable future. To let me bitch a bit about those bad corporations :) - just take a look on the market with WiFi routers. Most of the mainstream vendors ship old HW with old SW, it can be even 8-10 years old kernel, they don't care about CVEs, they barely do some security updates - not to mention the regular SW upgrades (adding new features), they don't built do last...they want You to buy a new router every year or two. Dave's write up of this is here: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/tango_on_turris/ And what Starlink did? Crazy, ridiculous story . It has been improved a bit= , but it was meant to be good right from the box, bufferbloat fixed and all that jazz, because OpenWrt has it fixed, right? BUT still, to hand over even more control of the Internet infrastructure to the government is nonsense. Government can be a good servant, but a bad master. Exactly like the corporate world. All the best, Frank Frantisek (Frank) Borsik https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 iMessage, mobile: +420775230885 Skype: casioa5302ca frantisek.borsik@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:28=E2=80=AFAM Sebastian Moeller wrote: > Hi Bob, > > > > On Mar 28, 2023, at 19:47, rjmcmahon wrote: > > > > Interesting. I'm skeptical that our cities in the U.S. can get this > (structural separation) right. > > There really isn't that much to get wrong, you built the access network > and terminate the per household fibers in arge enough "exchanges" there y= ou > offer ISPs to lighten up the fibers on the premise that customers can use > any ISP they want (that is present in the exchange)... and on ISP change > will just be patched differently in the exchange. > While I think that local "government" also could successfully run interne= t > access services, I see no reason why they should do so (unless there is n= o > competition). > The goal here is to move the "natural monopoly" of the access network out > of the hand of the "market" (as markets simply fail as optimizing resourc= e > allocation instruments under mono- and oligopoly conditions, on either > side). > > > > > > Pre-coaxial cable & contract carriage, the FCC licensed spectrum to the > major media companies and placed a news obligation on them for these OTA > rights. A society can't run a democracy well without quality and factual > information to the constituents. Sadly, contract carriage got rid of that > news as a public service obligation as predicted by Eli Noam. > http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html Hence we get January > 6th and an insurrection. > > > > > > > It takes a staff of 300 to produce 30 minutes of news three times a day= . > The co-axial franchise agreements per each city traded this obligation fo= r > a community access channel and a small studio, and annual franchise fees. > History has shown this is insufficient for a city to provide quality news > to its citizens. Community access channels failed miserably. > > I would argue this is that there are things where cities excel an= d > some where they simply are mediocre... managing monopoly infrastructure > (like roads, water, sometime power) with long amortization times is > something they do well (either directly or via companies they own and > operate). > > > Another requirement was two cables so there would be "competition" in > the coaxial offerings. This rarely happened because of natural monopoly > both in the last mile and in negotiating broadcast rights (mostly for > sports.) There is only one broadcast rights winner, e.g. NBC for the > Olympics, and only one last mile winner. That's been proven empirically i= n > the U.S. > > Yes, that is why the operator of the last mile, should really not > offer services over that mile itself. Real competition on the access line= s > themselves is not going to happen (at least not is sufficient number to > make a market solution viable), but there is precedence of getting enough > service providers to offer their services over access lines (e.g. > Amsterdam). > > > Now cities are dependent on those franchise fees for their budgets. And > the cable cos rolled up to a national level. So it's mostly the FCC that > regulates all of this where they care more about Janet Jackson's breast > than providing accurate news to help a democracy function well. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controvers= y > > > > It gets worse as people are moving to unicast networks for their "news.= " > But we're really not getting news at all, we're gravitating to emotional > validations per our dysfunctions. Facebook et al happily provide this > because it sells more ads. And then the major equipment providers claim > they're doing great engineering because they can carry "AI loads!!" and > their stock goes up in value. This means ads & news feeds that trigger > dopamine hits for addicts are driving the money flows. Which is a sad the= me > for undereducated populations. > > I am not 100% sure this is a uni- versus broadcast issue... even > on uni-cast I can consume traditional middle-of the road news and even on > broadcast I can opt for pretend-news. Sure the social media explosion wit= h > its auto-bias-amplification incentives (they care for time spend on the > platform and will show anything they believe will people stay longer, and > guess what that is not a strategy to rhymes well with objective informati= on > transmission, but emotional engagement, often negative, but I think we al= l > know this). > > > > > > And ChatGPT is not the answer for our lack of education and a public > obligation to support those educations, which includes addiction recovery > programs, and the ability to think critically for ourselves. > > Yes, for sure not ;) This is a fad mostly, and will go away some > time in the future, once people realize that this flavor of machine > learning is great for what it is, but what it is is not what we are prone > to believe it is... > > Regards > Sebastian > > > > > > Bob > >> Here is an old (2014) post on Stockholm to my class "textbook": > >> > https://cis471.blogspot.com/2014/06/stockholm-19-years-of-municipal.html > >> [1] > >> Stockholm: 19 years of municipal broadband success [1] > >> The Stokab report should be required reading for all local government > >> officials. Stockholm is one of the top Internet cities in the worl... > >> cis471.blogspot.com > >> ------------------------- > >> From: Starlink on behalf of > >> Sebastian Moeller via Starlink > >> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2023 2:11 PM > >> To: David Lang > >> Cc: dan ; Frantisek Borsik > >> ; libreqos > >> ; Dave Taht via Starlink > >> ; rjmcmahon ; > >> bloat > >> Subject: Re: [Starlink] [Bloat] On fiber as critical infrastructure > >> w/Comcast chat > >> Hi David, > >>> On Mar 26, 2023, at 22:57, David Lang wrote: > >>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, Sebastian Moeller via Bloat wrote: > >>>>> The point of the thread is that we still do not treat digital > >> communications infrastructure as life support critical. > >>>> Well, let's keep things in perspective, unlike power, water > >> (fresh and waste), and often gas, communications infrastructure is > >> mostly not critical yet. But I agree that we are clearly on a path in > >> that direction, so it is time to look at that from a different > >> perspective. > >>>> Personally, I am a big fan of putting the access network into > >> communal hands, as these guys already do a decent job with other > >> critical infrastructure (see list above, plus roads) and I see a PtP > >> fiber access network terminating in some CO-like locations a viable > >> way to allow ISPs to compete in the internet service field all the > >> while using the communally build access network for a few. IIRC this > >> is how Amsterdam organized its FTTH roll-out. Just as POTS wiring has > >> beed essentially unchanged for decades, I estimate that current fiber > >> access lines would also last for decades requiring no active component > >> changes in the field, making them candidates for communal management. > >> (With all my love for communal ownership and maintenance, these > >> typically are not very nimble and hence best when we talk about life > >> times of decades). > >>> This is happening in some places (the town where I live is doing > >> such a rollout), but the incumbant ISPs are fighting this and in many > >> states have gotten laws created that prohibit towns from building such > >> systems. > >> A resistance that in the current system is understandable*... > >> btw, my point is not wanting to get rid of ISPs, I really just think > >> that the access network is more of a natural monopoly and if we want > >> actual ISP competition, the access network is the wrong place to > >> implement it... as it is unlikely that we will see multiple ISPs > >> running independent fibers to all/most dwelling units... There are two > >> ways I see to address this structural problem: > >> a) require ISPs to rent the access links to their competitors for > >> "reasonable" prices > >> b) as I proposed have some non-ISP entity build and maintain the > >> access network > >> None of these is terribly attractive to current ISPs, but we already > >> see how the economically more attractive PON approach throws a spanner > >> into a), on a PON the competitors might get bitstream access, but will > >> not be able to "light up" the fiber any way they see fit (as would be > >> possible in a PtP deployment, at least in theory). My subjective > >> preference is b) as I mentioned before, as I think that would offer a > >> level playing field for ISPs to compete doing what they do best, offer > >> internet access service while not pushing the cost of the access > >> network build-out to all-fiber onto the ISPs. This would allow a > >> fairer, less revenue driven approach to select which areas to convert > >> to FTTH first.... > >> However this is pretty much orthogonal to Bob's idea, as I understand > >> it, as this subthread really is only about getting houses hooked up to > >> the internet and ignores his proposal how to do the in-house network > >> design in a future-proof way... > >> Regards > >> Sebastian > >> *) I am not saying such resistance is nice or the right thing, just > >> that I can see why it is happening. > >>> David Lang > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Starlink mailing list > >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > >> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starli= nk__;!!P7nkOOY!vFtTwFdYBTFjrJCFqT0rp0o2dtaz2m-dskeRLX2dIW_Pujge6ZU8eOIxtkN_= spTDlqyyzClrVbEMFFbvL3NlUgIHOg$ > >> Links: > >> ------ > >> [1] > https://cis471.blogspot.com/2014/06/stockholm-19-years-of-municipal.html > > --000000000000ebf75405f80a341b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Guys, tell me why - besides that it's just the usual, = human nature - why every discussion here ends with our version of the "= ;reductio ad Hitlerum", which is, in my mind, more or less subtle atta= ck on capitalism, entrepreneurship, corporations, market and the like.
= Also, more importantly, we all want to close that goddamn digital divide. A= nd we will never gonna do it with fiber ONLY...not to mention FiWi.=C2=A0

Also, if there are some fruitful attempts to build = some community broadband, be it fiber, wireless or mix...we end up with &qu= ot;yeah, but it's not done in big cities, just in some rural areas.&quo= t;

We need to close the digital divide - which is,= mostly, locate in the rural areas, e.g. to bring broadband where it's = not or where it's not sufficient and there is a lot of tools in the too= lbox, not just fiber, and every single one of them has its place and should= be used and funded by the grant money. The majority of these places need t= o be served quickly and on the best effort a.k.a what is actually possible = and feasible in their respective territory, terrain...and on on the BS noti= on "GIGABIT or NOTHING", or even 100/20 or nothing, when 25/5 wou= ld be more than enough, for most of the cases, in the foreseeable future.

To let me bitch a bit about those bad corporations = :) - just take a look on the market with WiFi routers. Most of the mainstre= am vendors ship old HW with old SW, it can be even 8-10 years old kernel, t= hey don't care about CVEs, they barely do some security updates - not t= o mention the regular SW upgrades (adding new features), they don't bui= lt do last...they want You to buy a new router every year or two. Dave'= s write up of this is here:=C2=A0https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/tango_on_turris/
And what Starlink did? Crazy, ridiculous story. It has been improved a bit, but it wa= s meant to be good right from the box, bufferbloat fixed and all that jazz,= because OpenWrt has it fixed, right?

BUT still, t= o hand over even more control of the Internet infrastructure to the governm= ent is nonsense. Government can be a good servant, but a bad master. Exactl= y like the corporate world.=C2=A0


<= div>
All the best,

Frank

Frantisek (Frank) Borsik

=C2=A0

= https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik

Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +4= 21919416714=C2=A0

iMessage, mobile: +420775230885

Skype: casioa5302ca

= frantisek.borsik@gmail.com



On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:2= 8=E2=80=AFAM Sebastian Moeller <moell= er0@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Bob,


> On Mar 28, 2023, at 19:47, rjmcmahon <rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting. I'm skeptical that our cities in the U.S. can get thi= s (structural separation) right.

There really isn't that much to get wrong, you built the access network= and terminate the per household fibers in arge enough "exchanges"= ; there you offer ISPs to lighten up the fibers on the premise that custome= rs can use any ISP they want (that is present in the exchange)... and on IS= P change will just be patched differently in the exchange.
While I think that local "government" also could successfully run= internet access services, I see no reason why they should do so (unless th= ere is no competition).
The goal here is to move the "natural monopoly" of the access net= work out of the hand of the "market" (as markets simply fail as o= ptimizing resource allocation instruments under mono- and oligopoly conditi= ons, on either side).


>
> Pre-coaxial cable & contract carriage, the FCC licensed spectrum t= o the major media companies and placed a news obligation on them for these = OTA rights. A society can't run a democracy well without quality and fa= ctual information to the constituents. Sadly, contract carriage got rid of = that news as a public service obligation as predicted by Eli Noam. http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html = Hence we get January 6th and an insurrection.



>
> It takes a staff of 300 to produce 30 minutes of news three times a da= y. The co-axial franchise agreements per each city traded this obligation f= or a community access channel and a small studio, and annual franchise fees= . History has shown this is insufficient for a city to provide quality news= to its citizens. Community access channels failed miserably.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 I would argue this is that there are things whe= re cities excel and some where they simply are mediocre... managing monopol= y infrastructure (like roads, water, sometime power) with long amortization= times is something they do well (either directly or via companies they own= and operate).

> Another requirement was two cables so there would be "competition= " in the coaxial offerings. This rarely happened because of natural mo= nopoly both in the last mile and in negotiating broadcast rights (mostly fo= r sports.) There is only one broadcast rights winner, e.g. NBC for the Olym= pics, and only one last mile winner. That's been proven empirically in = the U.S.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Yes, that is why the operator of the last mile,= should really not offer services over that mile itself. Real competition o= n the access lines themselves is not going to happen (at least not is suffi= cient number to make a market solution viable), but there is precedence of = getting enough service providers to offer their services over access lines = (e.g. Amsterdam).

> Now cities are dependent on those franchise fees for their budgets. An= d the cable cos rolled up to a national level. So it's mostly the FCC t= hat regulates all of this where they care more about Janet Jackson's br= east than providing accurate news to help a democracy function well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su= per_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy
>
> It gets worse as people are moving to unicast networks for their "= ;news." But we're really not getting news at all, we're gravit= ating to emotional validations per our dysfunctions. Facebook et al happily= provide this because it sells more ads. And then the major equipment provi= ders claim they're doing great engineering because they can carry "= ;AI loads!!" and their stock goes up in value.=C2=A0 This means ads &a= mp; news feeds that trigger dopamine hits for addicts are driving the money= flows. Which is a sad theme for undereducated populations.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 I am not 100% sure this is a uni- versus broadc= ast issue... even on uni-cast I can consume traditional middle-of the road = news and even on broadcast I can opt for pretend-news. Sure the social medi= a explosion with its auto-bias-amplification incentives (they care for time= spend on the platform and will show anything they believe will people stay= longer, and guess what that is not a strategy to rhymes well with objectiv= e information transmission, but emotional engagement, often negative, but I= think we all know this).


>
> And ChatGPT is not the answer for our lack of education and a public o= bligation to support those educations, which includes addiction recovery pr= ograms, and the ability to think critically for ourselves.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Yes, for sure not ;) This is a fad mostly, and = will go away some time in the future, once people realize that this flavor = of machine learning is great for what it is, but what it is is not what we = are prone to believe it is...

Regards
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Sebastian


>
> Bob
>> Here is an old (2014) post on Stockholm to my class "textbook= ":
>> https://cis471.blog= spot.com/2014/06/stockholm-19-years-of-municipal.html
>> [1]
>> Stockholm: 19 years of municipal broadband success [1]
>> The Stokab report should be required reading for all local governm= ent
>> officials. Stockholm is one of the=C2=A0 top Internet cities in th= e worl...
>> cis471.blogspot.com
>> -------------------------
>> From: Starlink <starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net>= on behalf of
>> Sebastian Moeller via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>=
>> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2023 2:11 PM
>> To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
>> Cc: dan <dandenson@gmail.com>; Frantisek Borsik
>> <frantisek.borsik@gmail.com>; libreqos
>> <libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net>; Dave Taht via Starlink
>> <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>; rjmcmahon <rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com&g= t;;
>> bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Starlink] [Bloat] On fiber as critical infrastructur= e
>> w/Comcast chat
>> Hi David,
>>> On Mar 26, 2023, at 22:57, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, Sebastian Moeller via Bloat wrote:
>>>>> The point of the thread is that we still do not treat = digital
>> communications infrastructure as life support critical.
>>>>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Well, let's keep things in perspec= tive, unlike power, water
>> (fresh and waste), and often gas, communications infrastructure is=
>> mostly not critical yet. But I agree that we are clearly on a path= in
>> that direction, so it is time to look at that from a different
>> perspective.
>>>>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Personally, I am a big fan of putting = the access network into
>> communal hands, as these guys already do a decent job with other >> critical infrastructure (see list above, plus roads) and I see a P= tP
>> fiber access network terminating in some CO-like locations a viabl= e
>> way to allow ISPs to compete in the internet service field all the=
>> while using the communally build access network for a few. IIRC th= is
>> is how Amsterdam organized its FTTH roll-out. Just as POTS wiring = has
>> beed essentially unchanged for decades, I estimate that current fi= ber
>> access lines would also last for decades requiring no active compo= nent
>> changes in the field, making them candidates for communal manageme= nt.
>> (With all my love for communal ownership and maintenance, these >> typically are not very nimble and hence best when we talk about li= fe
>> times of decades).
>>> This is happening in some places (the town where I live is doi= ng
>> such a rollout), but the incumbant ISPs are fighting this and in m= any
>> states have gotten laws created that prohibit towns from building = such
>> systems.
>>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 A resistance that in the current system= is understandable*...
>> btw, my point is not wanting to get rid of ISPs, I really just thi= nk
>> that the access network is more of a natural monopoly and if we wa= nt
>> actual ISP competition, the access network is the wrong place to >> implement it... as it is unlikely that we will see multiple ISPs >> running independent fibers to all/most dwelling units... There are= two
>> ways I see to address this structural problem:
>> a) require ISPs to rent the access links to their competitors for<= br> >> "reasonable" prices
>> b) as I proposed have some non-ISP entity build and maintain the >> access network
>> None of these is terribly attractive to current ISPs, but we alrea= dy
>> see how the economically more attractive PON approach throws a spa= nner
>> into a), on a PON the competitors might get bitstream access, but = will
>> not be able to "light up" the fiber any way they see fit= (as would be
>> possible in a PtP deployment, at least in theory). My subjective >> preference is b) as I mentioned before, as I think that would offe= r a
>> level playing field for ISPs to compete doing what they do best, o= ffer
>> internet access service while not pushing the cost of the access >> network build-out to all-fiber onto the ISPs. This would allow a >> fairer, less revenue driven approach to select which areas to conv= ert
>> to FTTH first....
>> However this is pretty much orthogonal to Bob's idea, as I und= erstand
>> it, as this subthread really is only about getting houses hooked u= p to
>> the internet and ignores his proposal how to do the in-house netwo= rk
>> design in a future-proof way...
>> Regards
>>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Sebastian
>> *) I am not saying such resistance is nice or the right thing, jus= t
>> that I can see why it is happening.
>>> David Lang
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