At the second of the Internet Society NY Chapter's meetings with Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, he presented an overview of the company's plan to encircle the entire USA with a dark fiber ring with carrier neutral access at any point. Allied Fiber's simple yet forward-thinking "real estate" approach to infrastructure provides de facto the structural separation which has, in other countries, been a boon to ISP competition, giving users access to cheap bandwidth and making network neutrality a moot point. Runs just about an hour. The subsequent Q&A may be made available at a later date.