[governance] Re: The Internet (as we know it) can never be "private"

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Yes there are some great people on the ground who have offered to help from
PCH and others, now it's only a matter of getting the buy in. I will contact
you offlist Daniel and it would be great to learn from the Bulgarian
experience. It was also great to learn from Phillip Smith who helped set up
the first IXP in London and so he has been really helpful in giving us the
lowdown on models around the world.

I also met some of the Indonesian ISP Association Reps at the Asia Pacific
Regional IGF and it was interesting to hear of the models etc.





On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
>
> On 18.07.11 22:02, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>
>> For your information, I have been working on pushing for the building
>> local IXP but that in itself is not the solution. There are numerous other
>> challenges.
>>
>>  While not the immediate solution, building one or more local exchange
> points greatly improves the chances for a more level playing field.
>
> In Bulgaria, we have been victims to the same "unfair" situation, with all
> sorts of opportunists coming and selling international bandwidth to the
> country, at outrageous prices. And this has continued for many, many years.
>
> But then, eventually local players began to understand (something we have
> been trying to tell them for many years), that the Internet is not "a
> connection to somewhere out there", but rather, everywhere and that an ISP
> is not merely buying and selling Internet connectivity as it was perceived
> in the past -  they are "producing" the Internet.
>
> Initial IXP attempts, supported by the monopoly telecom failed, but this
> did not prevent many private interconnects to exist. Thanks to few
> commercial initiatives, we now have several IXPs. Because they are
> commercial, they compete with each other. This has in practice freed the
> competing ISPs, lowered their costs tremendously and provided cheap
> connectivity to end users. The key to freedom was competition and lack of
> any regulation.
>
> Eventually, those international players came, invested in their own
> connections to the IXPs and now beg the local ISPs to sell them connectivity
> to the outside world at orders of magnitude lower prices.
>
> At the moment we enjoy much faster broadband Internet and much lower prices
> than is available anywhere in Europe.
>
> This is not to say, that local IXPs are the solution, but they do help a
> great deal.
>
> Daniel
>
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Sala

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