[pierrefar]

Before we get all up in arms about governments taking monopoly, we should remind ourselves that the "bottom up" approach being championed here gave us the Google-Verizon open internet proposal in August. As I understand it, the proposal have implied net neutrality for wireline services but has an opt-out for wireless internet. So the bottom up approach is not a guarantee that it will produce better policies.

But on balance, the bottom up approach has certainly been good for the internet. I just want to keep it in perspective.

References for the Google-Verizon deal:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10920871

[iwwr]

That's still top down, but with different people at the top.

The Google-Verizon deal involved common framework for government regulation of the internet. Calling it "open internet" was a deliberate misnomer.

[Groxx]

Multiple inheritance rears its ugly head yet again. Namespace collisions, oh noes!

[noglorp]

Think about it... the issue for wireline services is you can't just put in your own easily. Not an issue with wireless services. There is no special monopoly being given to wireless operators like wire operators.