Re: [alac] Differential Domain Pricing

[Jean Armour Polly <mom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I strongly support the John/Roberto statement too


At 3:24 PM +0330 8/27/06, Siavash Shahshahani recently said:
> Ditto.
> Siavash
>
> >  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.
>
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