[38812] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Fri Jun 15 20:26:07 2001
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "David Charlap" <david.charlap@marconi.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:25:26 -0700
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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
You mean one packet traverses *TWO* networks, don't you?
DS
