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X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:01:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> In-Reply-To: <30603440.5812.1405022176123.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org Here's a link to a post from VZN's public policy blog, about Netflix. Now, just as a matter of principle, I tend to assume that anything VZN says in public is a self-serving lie based on a poor understanding of the Real World... but I did in fact read it. Yup. The money quote: One might wonder why Netflix and its transit providers were the only ones that ran into congestion issues. What it boils down to is this: these other transit and content providers took steps to ensure that there was adequate capacity for their traffic to enter our network. "their traffic". What, Verizon: Netflix is just sending you that traffic uninvited? No: that's *your customers traffic*. You *knew* that there would be asymmetrical amounts of traffic flowing downhill to your customers, *or you wouldn't have provisioned nearly uniformly asymmetrical last mile links to them*. You just lost the bet on how much traffic that would be. That's why they call it gambling: sometimes you lose. You lost. Man up and provision usable peering. That traffic is your responsiblity. If you decided not to charge your customers enough to provision for it, take it out of retained earnings. Just don't try to convince us all that, somehow, that traffic flow isn't your customers traffic, and thus yours. Netflix's only fault is being popular. http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/why-is-netflix-buffering-dispelling-the-congestion-myth Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
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