[163855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Jun 20 07:09:05 2013
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <51C26745.6010003@queuefull.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:07:52 -0700
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jun 19, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net> =
wrote:
> The sending peer (or their customer) has more control over cost.=20
I'll assume that, by "sending peer," you mean the content network. If =
so, I disagree. The content network has no control whatsoever over the =
location of the eyeball customer. The eyeball customer has sole control =
over his or her own location, while the content network has sole control =
over the location from which they reply to requests.
Therefore, control is shared between the two sides. And both are =
incentivized to minimize costs. If both minimize their costs, overall =
costs are minimized. That's why this system works.
-Bill
