[38811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Fri Jun 15 19:27:01 2001
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:26:52 -0400
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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David Schwartz wrote:
> John Olp wrote:
>>
>> The argument that multicast should be billed based on the number of
>> receivers is flawed. Those receivers are already being billed
>> based on the bandwidth they use regardless of source.
>
> They are billed by their ISP for the traffic they receive. This
> doesn't cover the cost of sending the data to them on the sourcing
> ISP. This is why you pay for both traffic you send and for traffic
> you receive. Both cost your provider money to do for you.
Nice bit of double-billing.
One packet traverses the network, and two people pay for it.
-- David
