[52706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what's that smell?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Hickstein)
Tue Oct 8 21:35:32 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 18:34:59 -0700
From: Jim Hickstein <jxh@jxh.com>
To: Barb Dijker <barb@netrack.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021008141514.020e0ec0@netrack.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 2:56 PM -0600 Barb Dijker <barb@netrack.net>
wrote:
...
> ISPs bill customers for traffic on the edge. If you filter one hop from
> the edge (interior of the edge router - fewer interfaces that way too) or
> at your border, then you can have your cake (money from the customer) and
> eat it too (filter RFC1918). Of course you would then be charging
> customers for packets you don't pass. They'll never know, and I never
> met a bean counter that cared about such details anyway... if bean
> counters are making routing policies.
I count both packets and beans, and as a customer (though not Barb's), I
think such a charge is entirely within reason -- because it is under my
control. Have some more cake.
