Re: [silk] John Gilmore (of the EFF) on theregister.co.uk - sad, really

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <silk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Udhay Shankar N got onto a soapbox and declaimed:

> Eh ? Why do you say that ? I would think the balance is definitely in 
> favour of an ISP being a common carrier.
 
*sigh* Please search the archives of NANOG (the North American Network
Operators Group) or inet-access.  This thread has been beaten to death on
both lists.  A google search on "isps are not common carriers" should help.

There's still a lot of distinction from the "telecommunications common
carrier" defined by the FCC ... which means that the ISP basically has no
control over what use its server is put to.

	-s

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