[102022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Jan 23 05:17:50 2008
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
In-Reply-To: <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D52031603411D84@ad-exh01.adhost.lan>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:03:40 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 22 Jan 2008, at 17:30, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> Hmm, who gets paid? It sounds like your hinting around a telco-type
> reciprocal payment model (correct me if I'm wrong). Do I pay my
> upstreams who in turn pay there upstreams and so on and so on? Or,
> is there some central, uber-authority that gets paid by all of us?
> It seems to me that there are many billing models that accommodate
> point-to-point relationships, but I'm having a hard time coming up
> with a mental model of payment in the many-to-many environment in
> the DFZ.
People pay the RIRs.
The RIRs spend money on parties for network operators.
I think that charging for deaggregation of PA is hard to imagine. I
think charging for PI as a model may have been worthy of consideration
several years ago, but since we're only months away from entire
product lines of deployed edge kit nolonger accepting a full table,
the battle is over (and operators lost).
Andy
