> On Apr 10, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Bill Murdoch <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Working with remote and rural community's...
> 
> "customers have autonomy in selection of their service providers" .
> 
> For a major urban center autonomy in selection is an option. For the 
> realities of communities just a couple hundred kilometres away from urban 
> centres, choices (if any) become fewer. For remote communities,  typically 
> only the one option.  
> 

Not necessarily… San Jose, CA is a major urban center. Autonomy in selection 
isn’t really an option for most of San Jose.

Owen

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> Sent: April 10, 2019 12:53
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-4: Allow Inter-regional IPv6 
> Resource Transfers
> 
> (off topic)
> > customers have autonomy in selection of their service providers
> 
> ha ha haah=ahaaahahahahah oh wow.  *MAYBE* in the commercial space. I 
> surveyed all of my friends and family at one point and got over 800+ replies 
> all across the US, and only 4-- FOUR == a small fraction of a percent!! -- 
> had a choice of providers for at least 10+Mb/sec internet service.
> 
> Maybe Canada has it better, but I haven't heard that the Caribbean has 
> significant choice either. Mexico has the same non-overlap in the market as 
> the US.
> 
> On topic for ARIN but not for African ISPs: I don't think that ARIN policy 
> should revolve around Republican beliefs that the market always provides 
> competition. History shows that the market will choose not to compete 
> whenever possible, and will even strike agreements not to compete. Thus ARIN 
> has a responsibility IMHO to ensure that customers receive baseline services 
> -- to whatever extent it is possible within ARIN's charter.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:44 AM John Curran <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2019, at 9:33 AM, Job Snijders <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd like to draw the community's attention to the following joint
>> announcement from two of Africa's largest IP transit providers. 
>> ...
>> It should be incontestable now that ARIN resource holders are at a
>> disadvantage when it comes to RPKI services.
> 
> Job - 
> 
> Indeed.  It’s similarly incontestable that customers of those service 
> providers are at a disadvantage to customers of other service provider in 
> Africa that do provide complete routing validation including for ARIN-region 
> resource holders.   One of the benefits of our loosely coordinated Internet 
> is that service providers have autonomy in how they run their network, and 
> customers have autonomy in selection of their service providers. 
> 
> /John
> 
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
> 
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