[19062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Tue Aug 25 19:00:41 1998
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:44:08 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
CC: steve@altrina.exodus.net, owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US, jcurran@bbnplanet.com,
patrick@namesecure.com, nanog@merit.edu
Robert Bowman wrote:
>
> It will be a lot easier to incent customer to distribute, as a colocation
> provider, if we don't have to pay per Mbps that is imbalanced--and instead
> we have a direct cost associated with having to do best-exit.. I think
> pretty much anyone can understand that.
Absolutely.
Ideally, doing good content distribution would address the cost imbalance
concerns that the providers like BBN raise when peering with large content
providers.
Alec
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