[129725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Sep 17 12:50:46 2010
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:50:13 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
In-Reply-To: <F3318834F1F89D46857972DD4B411D700198767462@EXCHANGE.thenap.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 9/17/2010 11:43 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:
>> How would you feel if you paid for priority access to hulu.com via this means, only to see>your carrier de-prioritize that traffic because they're getting a check from Netflix?
>
> Isn't this where "competition/may the best provider win" comes into play?
>
That argument may not work, as there are many non-competitive
jurisdictions.
Of course, the non-compete areas aren't necessarily where a content
provider would pay for such a service. Content provider must see value
in the higher class service, which generally means they send a lot of
traffic to where they are paying, which implies a lot of customers on
the ISP side, which implies a high probability that we are talking
metropolitan areas where there is more competition (or a massive NSP
which will have a mix of rural and metro).
Jack
