[171733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon May 12 10:31:57 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:30:07 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <5820C336-043E-4680-87BB-8CAE72ACA4DF@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 5/12/14, 7:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> On May 12, 2014, at 6:02 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
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>> On 10/05/2014 22:34, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> imiho think vi hart has it down simply and understandable by a lay
>>> person. <http://vihart.com/net-neutrality-in-the-us-now-what/>. my
>>> friends in last mile providers disagree. i take that as a good sign.=
>>
>> Vi's analogy is wrong on a subtle but important point. In the analogy=
, the
>> delivery company needs to get a bunch of new trucks to handle the deli=
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>> but as the customer is paying for each delivery instances, the deliver=
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>> company's costs are covered by increased end-user charges.
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> Two words nuke your suggestion here: Amazon Prime
Once you build the capacity to reach every delivery point every-day it's
maybe not enough to hope that people utilize that facility . decreasing
the cost per package requires higher unit volume. The incremental cost
of delivering the second package is much lower than the first.
> Owen
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