[172924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sun Jul 13 12:20:13 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <53C1F3DB.5050805@meetinghouse.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:20:05 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
wrote:
> Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> Right now, peering agreements are the wild west.
>>>>>
>>>> no. those days passed in the last century. you just don't know them.
>>>> but then, you are not an operator so no surprise.
>>>>
>>>> what you are seeing, and creating massive noise around, is a business
>>>> war between the last mile cartel and the content they envy and want
>>>> to supplant or at least bleed. transit, peering, caching, etc. are
>>>> just business and technical tools being used in that war. keep eye on
>>>> doughnut, not the hole.
>>>>
>>> Sure looks like a wild west range war to me. And let's not forget that
>>> Netflix is not some tiny company anymore - 1/3 of Internet traffic or
>>> some such, 46million members, $1billion Q1 income. Yeah - big guys
>>> fighting, no established law or regulation (well, there was, but the
>>> Supreme Court overturned it) - looks like a range war to me.
>>>
>> ahhh. so
>>
>> not government regulated == wild west
>>
>> got it
>>
>> randy
>>
>
> lawless, big guys fighting with little guys in the middle == wild west
Wait, I thought that was Wall Street....
*ducks and runs for cover*
Matt
