[18982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Aug 24 17:22:50 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:14:46 -0400
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980824134332.7513A-100000@po1.namesecure.com
>
At 01:49 PM 08/24/1998 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>Are you saying that someone should be forced to pay for the privilege of
>offering something for free to your customers? Things that your customers,
>who I number among are requesting?
There's no way to know what is being offered "for free", "in
exchange for ads", "due to a credit card transaction", etc.
It's all just traffic.
Customers who receive traffic currently bear some of the costs
and the sending customer bears some of the costs. In the case
of an off-net sender with shortest-exit routing and no offsetting
traffic in the other direction, the receiving customer ends up
bearing all of the costs.
/John
