[132605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Nov 29 18:32:11 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:11:18 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Aaron Wendel <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
In-Reply-To: <02b701cb9017$be2cdd90$3a8698b0$@net>
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>, "'Rettke,
Brian'" <Brian.Rettke@cableone.biz>
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On 11/29/2010 4:49 PM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> A customer pays them for access to the Internet. If that access demands
> more infrastructure then Comcast needs to build out the infrastructure and
> pass on the costs to the customers demanding it.
>
I agree. This type of maneuver is no different than ESPN3 charging the
ISP for the ISP customers to access the content. Both are unscalable
models that threaten the foundation of an open Internet.
As an ISP, I could care less what is in the packets my customers send
and receive. The exception to this, of course, is malicious packets but
they keep refusing to set the evil bit.
Jack
