[19006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Aug 25 04:24:18 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:07:11 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: jcurran@bbnplanet.com, ahp@hilander.com
Cc: patrick@namesecure.com, owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US, nanog@merit.edu
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> John Curran wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I guess 'all the cost' means most of the cost, and 'no offsetting traffic'
> means 'not much offsetting traffic'.
>
> However, is the real problem here the traffic assymetry, or the fact that
> all of the traffic is coming from one geographic location?
>
> If it is the former, then there isn't much of a solution except to merge
> with a network that sucks a huge amount of traffic. However, if it is the
> latter, then wouldn't content distribution fix it? I know many web farms
> offer distributed servers to their customers as a type of premium service.
> However, since in this case it benefits all parties involved, it seems to me
> that it might make sense to offer this service to huge web sites at little
> or no additional cost.
>
Actually, if the content provider simply honors MEDs, that should cover most
of the issue. Then, the long haul is done across the content providers'
backbone anyway.
Owen
