[161183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast NOC Contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Mar 3 11:03:27 2013
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:03:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <38C548ED-5840-4A28-8F6D-C97EE3A8A689@snappydsl.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> > For providers who have an overall asymmetric traffic profile towards
> > Comcast, it's a matter of perspective as to whether you view this as
> > the providers sending Comcast traffic or Comcast customers pulling it.
> > So it's hardly surprising that there are disagreements about who gets to pay
> > the other for the interconnection arrangements.
Saying that it's a matter of perspective is a false dichotomy.
If the providers go away, the Comcast customers will pull traffic from
other providers.
If the *customers* go away...
Nope; Comcast is acting as the agent of its customers to pull in traffic
they want to see, and if it isn't charging them enough for that, that is
*Comcast's* problem.
It's really a bright-line answer.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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