Loopback testing is just plain silly unless your tests show that your T1 can't handle a 1.54mbps to the next hop router. Sprint is not turning away small ISP traffic. They merely have a policy that filters traffic from small unaggregated networks. Meltdown is a cute way to say overload. This thing about trade laws is silly.
Trade laws have no effect whatsoever on technology and technical capability.
No, because when the plane is full, it is full and laws cannot change that. He attempts to make it seem as if the IETF is guaranteeing that there will be an Internet meltdown this year. Bob Metcalfe is predicting such a meltdown and he is probably an IETF member along with thousands of others who do not believe any meltdown is imminent. This is better known as the free market as opposed to a monopoly market. The telcos have a monopoly so they can make you pay big bucks for an over-engineered network.