[132693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Nov 30 07:15:58 2010
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:15:04 +0000
In-Reply-To: <7742.1291078339@localhost> (Valdis Kletnieks's message of "Mon\,
29 Nov 2010 19\:52\:19 -0500")
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>, "'Rettke,
Brian'" <Brian.Rettke@cableone.biz>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Valdis Kletnieks:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:11:18 CST, Jack Bates said:
>> I agree. This type of maneuver is no different than ESPN3 charging the=20
>> ISP for the ISP customers to access the content. Both are unscalable=20
>> models that threaten the foundation of an open Internet.
>
> Oddly enough, cable channels like ESPN asking for a per-subscriber fee
> from cable delivery networks like Comcast has been a mostly-scalable
> model for the cable-TV arena for three or four decades now....
And your TV bandwidth usage doesn't count towards your monthly limit,
either.
--=20
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