[163833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Wed Jun 19 20:31:56 2013
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:31:29 -0400
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m27ghpya80.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: Ren Provo <ren.provo@gmail.com>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-06-19 7:03 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> as someone who does not really buy the balanced traffic story, some
> are eyeballs and some are eye candy and that's just life, seems like a
> lot of words to justify various attempts at control, higgenbottom's
> point. randy
What do you mean "not really buy the balanced traffic story"? Ratio can
matter when routing is asymmetric. (If costs can be approximated as
distance x volume, forwarding hot-potato places a higher burden on the
recipient...) And we've basically designed protocols that route
asymmetrically by default. Measuring traffic ratios is the laziest
solution to this problem, and thus the one we should've expected.
Cheers,
-Benson
