[19011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Butler)
Tue Aug 25 09:39:17 1998
From: Sean Butler <sebutler@us.ibm.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: <mleber@he.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:45:51 -0400
I wrote:
>> My argument was that in addition to the peering settlement charges,
>> each network would charge their customers for the traffic they generate.
mleber@he.net wrote
>Since you are proposing a receiver pays system there is less motivation
>for networks to charge the sender. In fact, they would probably pay the
>sender.
My thought was that you charge the sender and receiver. They are both
using resources on their origination networks.... This helps prevent
people from gernerating legitmate, non-fraudulent traffic -- i.e. extra
traffic that is not necessary.
Sean
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