[100345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Gucker)
Mon Oct 22 05:12:32 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:11:05 +0200
From: "Charles Gucker" <cgucker@onesc.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B0013B8EB0@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
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On 10/22/07, michael.dillon@bt.com <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
>
> > It's a network
> > operations thing... why should Comcast provide a fat pipe for
> > the rest of the world to benefit from? Just my $.02.
>
> Because their customers PAY them to provide that fat pipe?
You are correct, customers pay Comcast to provide a fat pipe for THEIR
use (MSO's typically understand this as eyeball heavy content
retrieval, not content generation). They do not provide that pipe for
somebody on another network to use, I mean abuse. Comcast's SLA is
with their user, not the remote user. Also, its a long standing
policy on most "broadband" type networks that the do not support user
offered services, which this clearly falls into.
charles
