This is a truly ignorant article. There is no support given for any of the extreme positions taken. Additionally, it presumes that any change in regulations w

This is a truly ignorant article. There is no support given for any of the extreme positions taken. Additionally, it presumes that any change in regulations will reduce requirements instead of transferring those not already covering last mile IP, which is the obvious action. The requirements for running the telephone system do not end just because the transport medium is IP. In many cases, the transition to IP services makes the existing IP infrastructure beholden to higher uptime and connectivity requirements. Try telling federal regulators that you did not deliver an emergency call because you were in a peering dispute. Today, American backbone IP NSPs are required to deliver outage information to the FCC, and this is prior to any assumption of life-critical services.