[5714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ranney)
Fri Oct 25 14:51:11 1996
From: Matt Ranney <mjr@wacky.eit.com>
To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961025181010.21396C-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net> from "Jim Dixon" at Oct 25, 96 06:38:22 pm
Jim Dixon writes...
>
[...]
> to step forward at this point -- more Web traffic flows from the UK
> to the US. That is, there is a small net flow of _benefit_ to the US
> and a very large net imbalance in _costs_ to the UK.
Obviously the costs are different, but how exactly are you measuring
"benefit"? What if there are just more net-savvy folks the UK that
want to run Web sites, resulting in a higher ratio of servers to
browsers than in the US? Don't those people that put up Web servers
then want people in the US to see them?
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