Re: [alac] Differential Domain Pricing

[Bret Fausett <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I support the statement by John as supplemented by Roberto.

           Bret

On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:15 PM, John L wrote:

> Since the deadline for comment on the three new contracts is the  
> day after tomorrow, I think we should say something like this:
>
>  Members of the At Large Advisory Committee views many aspects of the
>  proposed contracts with great concern, including the removal of all
>  price caps, differential pricing, and the sale of traffic data.  We
>  believe these may have significant adverse effects on at large  
> Internet
>  users.
>
>  Since the proposed contracts were put up for comment with little  
> advance
>  warning, and the comment period has been the month of August when  
> many
>  committee members are on vacation, it has not been possible to  
> prepare an
>  ALAC response by August 28th.  We do expect to prepare a response in
>  coming weeks and to have it available to the board before the  
> September
>  13th board meeting when, we assume in the absence of a published  
> agenda,
>  the board will consider these proposed contracts.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet  
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
> "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.