Australia Investigates Peering Practices

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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Re:ghuh?

[suss]

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

If only they did the same in the USA, there wouldn't be a warmongering moron at the helm there now, for sure...

Voting should be your duty, not just your right.

wow...

[kingkade]

Gee i wonder if you're the same exact person, just decided not to sign in, eh?
See, what I wrote is in direct response to the original posting regardless of what the article is about you half-wit. And if you're too damaged to see that then you have no business using a computer.
Now, moron...you better go, your bus is leaving.