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Australia Investigates Peering Practices

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the peer-pressure dept.

Anonymous Sniper writes "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today announced that it will hold a public inquiry into whether an Internet interconnection [peering] service should be regulated. This would mean the big National ISPs would have to pay smaller ISPs for traffic originating within their networks, which means everyone's routing tables would become more efficient, and cheaper for the smaller ISPs. This would also set a significant international precedent. Horray for the ACCC and Allan Fels - the same people who made Region-Free DVD players legal here."

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  1. whew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it was going to be an article telling me I can't get no more warez

  2. Death to Sprint by Cyberwlf · · Score: 5, Funny

    So long as any regulating does not remove our right to seek and destroy those who run horrendously poor peer's like Sprint.

  3. ghuh? by reconn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot poster.... in favor of regulation...... brain melting....

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    1. Re:ghuh? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Funny

      Australia is notoriously regulation happy (yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.)

      What, paying a $100 fine for *voting* in the election would make more sense?

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    2. Re:ghuh? by Alan_Exs · · Score: 2, Funny

      >does this actually make the Australian politicians more responsive/responsible to the voters?

      Unfortunately they are entirely responsive/responsible to the American President

  4. This needs investigation? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's the big deal? Most people pee into a toilet or urinal when they have to go. What they ought to be investigating is why so many people don't wash their hands afterward. Now that's something worth looking into.

  5. In Australia.... by banka · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...National ISP pays YOU!