> FCC regulations forced the carriers to allow portability... Are we better off with that than with a consensus-based DNS-like overlay? I don't mean to say tha

> FCC regulations forced the carriers to allow portability... Are we better off with that than with a consensus-based DNS-like overlay? I don't mean to say that no government regulation can ever be beneficial but they're often heavy-handed and destroy alternatives, often before those can even emerge.