[discuss] Question

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Now we agree :)

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 01/26/2014 10:51 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> On 26 jan 2014, at 12:47, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
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>> Patrik, my reminder takes into account that several participants are not techies or might not have been around in these dialogues in those earlier days. Not my case, of course. I hope you understand this.
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> I completely understand!
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>> Unless we wish to keep parallel tracks for people like us and ignore that we should get as many people in the list as possible involved in the central aspects of these issues.
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> I not only understand but also agree. I only say there is a balance between education and movement forward.
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>     Patrik
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>> frt rgds
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>> --c.a.
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>> On 01/26/2014 05:42 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>>> On 25 jan 2014, at 23:03, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
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>>>> Just to remind you that many in this list do not dominate the myriad of acronyms and associated concepts on this track, so it would be great (and educative for many of us) if you tried to explain DSLAMs and LLUBs and son on, when such mentions are needed, to most of us poor mortals, Wikipedia and Google notwithstanding :)
>>>
>>> Carlos, although of course we should explain acronyms, it is also the case that the modern discussion on internet governance, regulation and international agreements have been going on at least since the ITRs where signed in 1988 in Melbourne. So there is a balance between how much education we have time for because we must move forward. We can not restart the discussions all the time.
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>>> For LLUB or LLU, please see for example (3), (7) and (8) in <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000R2887:EN:HTML>.
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>>> Overview is also in <http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/internet/l24108j_en.htm> where also the issue I brought up to Brian is a big problem in the EU:
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>>>> It does not concern new optical fibre loops, for which the market is already much more competitive.
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>>> That is a statement I strongly disagree with.
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>>> For DSLAM, see for example wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer>
>>>
>>>     Patrik
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