[132619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Nov 29 19:53:21 2010
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:34:52 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:51:09 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:34:52 PST, Seth Mattinen said:
> My take on this is that settlement free peering only remains free as
> long as it is beneficial to both sides, i.e. equal amounts of traffic
> exchanged.
Equal *value* of traffic exchanged. A network that has a lot of eyeballs
may be willing to accept some imbalance to connect to a popular source
of content, and that content source is equally motivated to cut some
slack on the ratio to get good access to more eyeballs.
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