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To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (17164)	11/19/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

For those of you wanting to understand the other side: INTERVIEW WITH ERIK STEN: The Portland Commissioner who helped to start the open access issue nogatekeepers.org I like this clip. It shows how the mind of a regulator works. They simply cannot concieve of life without regulation. If you look at AT&T's argument, on the one hand they're saying it's premature to have a national policy. On the other hand - and this is practically a quote I've heard it so many times - they're saying we cannot have a patchwork of different local rules. But you only get one or the other. Heres another one that gets to the heart of thier point of view. Better technology through regulation. "It is fashionable today to argue that innovation is assured if government simply stays out of the way. The FCC's hands-off policy to date appears laregly to be motivated by this prevailing ideological vogue. The view is that the best way for the government to guarantee growth in Internet broadband is to let the owners of the networks architect broadband as they see fit. We believe this view is misguided. It ignores the history that gave the Internet its birth, and threatens to reproduce the calcified network design that characterized our communications network prior to the Internet. The restrictions on innovation that marked the AT&T telephone monopoly were not removed by the government doing nothing. They were removed by active intervention designed to assure the possibility for innovation." -- Profs. Mark Lemley and Lawrence Lessig, in an recent filing opposing the AT&T/MediaOne merger at the FCC Eric