[110905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jan 21 16:43:20 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090121213813.GD21304@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:43:15 -0500
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On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Excellent idea. It is a shame content owners do not see the utility
>> in your idea.
>>
>> To bring this back to an operational topic, just because a content
>> owner does not want to work with someone on this, does the lack of
>> external bandwidth / infrastructure / whatever make it "OK" to
>> install
>> a proxy which will intentionally re-write the content?
>
> This really boils down to "who is more important? The content or the
> contents' eyeballs?"
>
> (Or the people having to deliver said content to said eyeballs, and
> aren't being paid by the content deliverer on their behalf.)
No, it does not.
If I own something, it doesn't matter how "important" the people who
want to buy it are.
But I guess that's not operational.
--
TTFN,
patrick
