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To: E. Davies who wrote (8157)	4/18/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Eric, >> Sometimes your messages have the feel of Ahhaha's.<< Given what's been stated in totality re my friend AHhaha, I don't know quite how to take that, but I will graciously accept it as a compliment. >>I'd gotten from your messages that "open" access would be a mess to administrate, and have always seen that the transition to "television" over the Internet from classic TV is going to be a rough one, but it had never occured to me how much uglier it would be to combine the issues together.<< These issues will not only be a mess and rough, but they are a physical impossibility under the current calculus being used to design the distribution plant. Which serves only to exacerbate people's false expectations and frustrations in the near term, while showing the lack of preparedness of the model, for what it is. It will do fine within the context of Internet access, provided you limit the amount and type of content, for the time being. But that, apparently, doesn't sit well with folks who would rather be told differenly, until it's time to go to the dance. >>I think the regulators are very wise to stay out of this mess, no matter how much noise is made.<< Wise, or are they merely impotent to do anything about it? They no more have a clue as to what next is coming out of the chute than anyone else. And they have come to openly recognize this, to their rare credit. The creation of regulations in a fast moving area such as what we call convergence lags reality by a margin that would be considered laughable, were it not that they would adversely affect entrepreneurial enterprises the way they have in the past. This was most pronounced last year when one commish openly recognized that developments in VoIP were moving along so quickly, that they would defer, for some period, commenting on or introducing any new regs. She said that they would wait for things to settle down. Which, in itself, speaks to a form of cluelessness or denial, take your pick. What's going to settle down? Innovation, and the next revolutionary find coming out of a college dorm, wont slow down for anyone. Regards, Frank Coluccio