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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Nnagain <nnagain-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of Patrick Maupin via Nnagain <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">> If there are no would-be bad actors, no regulation is needed. But if there are would-be bad actors, then they will attempt to be instrumental in shaping any new regulations, and many of the presumed would-be
bad actors have time, money, and histories of securing significant face time with regulatory agencies such as the FCC.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Often the ‘bad actor’ is really just a ‘dumb actor’ that did something without thinking it through fully or understanding root causes, secondary effects of a network change, etc. In our industry (writ large)
it seems like 99% of the negative stuff can be ascribed to mistakes/lack of foresight/incorrect root cause analysis/etc and 1% is due to some ‘evil genius plan’. ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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