[178631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Mar 1 16:20:15 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 1 Mar 2015 21:19:47 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <54F32F1A.9090201@meetinghouse.net>
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In article <54F32F1A.9090201@meetinghouse.net> you write:
>Scott,
>
>Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between
>servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running
>locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment?
There's always a lot more stuff from other people than from you.
Unless you expect every server to connect directly to every other
server, you're going to end up with a small set of well connected
servers that feed stub servers and send way more than they receive,
and the stubs that receive way more than they send.
I have run usenet servers pretty much continuously for over 20 years,
and Usenet has always been like that.
R's,
John
