[133817] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Dec 17 12:58:12 2010
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:51:02 -0800
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimV321G8zA44OYzY1p1O2cAEm6Vh7rraEUt9R=Y@mail.gmail.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Jeff Wheeler" <jsw@inconcepts.biz>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Level3 must think that their business
> would be better off with regulatory oversight of peering, or they
> would not have taken this action. Comcast should realize that, of the
> three potential motives for their recent actions I have previously
> outlined, #1 and #3 are not just highly unlikely, but would be
> practically impossible in a regulated environment. As such, they
> should further realize that their peering committee is driven by
> motive #2, ego, and find the best way to change their position without
> losing too much credibility.
>=20
> --
> Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
> Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
Or maybe Level(3) thinks the entire game could potentially change and =
are attempting to head that off at the pass.
What if instead of the end users paying for Internet service, the =
content providers did. Sort of like broadcast TV where the broadcasters =
pay the freight and the user simply turns on their device and they get =
content. In that model, the providers of the traffic pay the delivery =
costs of the content. So you would have "consumer" access that is =
mainly paid for by the content providers and "business" access which =
would be paid by the end users but would have less "consumer" traffic =
such as Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
If you look at the revenues being reported by some of these content =
providers, someone might be looking at those numbers saying "why =
*shouldn't* they pay? They are making money from the end users via ad =
sales just like broadcasters do, why shouldn't the model be the same?".
I am not making any statement of my opinion, simply looking at a =
possibility. If there were such a sea change, Level3 now being a major =
content provider might find its long range plans have had a wrench =
thrown in them.
