[28211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Net traffic flows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Apr 20 06:49:05 2000
Date: 20 Apr 2000 03:44:31 -0700
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Wed, 19 April 2000, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
> AS1 used to claim that they wanted "settlement based peering" from people,
> and they said they would be 100% fair about it. If you peered with AS1 and
> had more than a 2:1 delta (to AS1 : from AS1), you paid $XXX per
> (something). If AS1 sent you more than double what you sent them, THEY
> would pay YOU.
I've long been on record as saying I would sign any peering agreement
with *RECIPROCAL* compensation. I can always arrange my traffic so they
pay me, or at worst it is net zero. This is simple game theory. The
greedier the compensation rate, the better off I am. Only an ILEC would
be dumb enough to demand reciprocal compensation.
