[152525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Dent)
Tue May 1 16:46:03 2012
In-Reply-To: <8D87F508-8198-4ED8-9806-761253FB2E5B@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:45:29 -0500
From: Jerry Dent <effinjdent@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrot=
e:
> On May 1, 2012, at 16:24 , Jerry Dent wrote:
>
>> Lets be honest. There are a million reasons we can all come up with to
>> try and justify something like this but 99% of the time it is just the
>> larger isp trying to throw their weight around in the name of greed.
>> In the end, the customers of both companies are the ones who suffer
>> and ultimately pay (figuratively and literally) for it.
>
> 1) Welcome to business 101.
>
> 2) Is that bad?
Can be for the end users if they wind up on a less direct network path.
>
> 3) I think your 99% number is very inflated. =A0But then 99% of stats are=
made up. :)
Probably.
