[18925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Rand)
Sat Aug 22 10:50:05 1998
From: dlr@bungi.com (Dave Rand)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:39:06 PDT
In-Reply-To: Mike Leber's message on Aug 22, 1:06.
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>, Bruce Hahne <hahne@netcom.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, michael@memra.com
[In the message entitled "Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI)" on Aug 22, 1:06, Mike Leber writes:]
>
> Oh, and before anybody comes up with a simplistic (and flawed) rebuttal
> such as banning the large web crawlers from settlements, there are plenty
> of other legitimate automated methods of getting flows in either
> direction.
>
All I can say is that if settlements are based on who is receiving
the traffic, there will be huge increase in the amount of money
that networks pay to attract everyone's favortive smurf target,
the IRC servers. A 2-day-long 100 Mbps smurf will be _encouraged_ :-)
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Dave Rand
dlr@bungi.com
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