[19000] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Aug 25 01:02:10 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:56:50 -0400
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980824152013.17877A-100000@po1.namesecure.co
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At 04:14 PM 08/24/1998 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>The net effect is that the transit provider is double-dipping,
>and it costs the receiver twice to receive the data.
>
>Somehow this doesn't seem to be very attractive to me.
You're paying half the cost currently, the sender (presuming
they're transit or a relatively balanced peer) is paying the
other half.
/John