[governance] The UN Threat to Internet Freedom

[McTim]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Anja Kovacs <anja at internetdemocracy.in> wrote:
> A comment on the article earlier posted by Renate, further shedding some
> very interesting light on Mr. McDowell's agenda:
>
> FCC first FUD at the idea of a UN-controlled Internet
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119481-fcc-fires-fud-at-the-idea-of-a-un-controlled-internet


Seems to me the author doesn't truly understand how peering and
transit relationships work.

"Under the current unregulated peering system, foreign ISPs pay US
ISPs a fee to carry internet traffic, which means US companies make a
tidy sum of cash off foreign access." for example is incorrect.

ISPs pay their upstream (transit) providers, these may or may not be
located in the USA.  They also peer to reduce their transit costs.
Many transit providers are located outside the US and are not US
companies.

For example, my ISP in Kenya is connected to other Kenyan ISPs via the
local IXP and to an Indian transit provider (TATA and a European
provider (OpenTransit France Telecom).

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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