[172818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Thu Jul 10 22:38:50 2014
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:38:42 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Translation: if Netflix is paying Comcast, why not pay us(Verizon) ?
Rubens
