[58389] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sun May 11 12:48:32 2003
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:54:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: bdragon@gweep.net
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030510224443.96898.qmail@sidehack.sat.gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > > The only way this could possibly work is direct billing to those consuming
> > > the resources by everyone who's resources are being consumed across the
> > > entire network.
> >
> > When I buy a hamburger from Burger King, I just pay for the hamburger.
> > Burger King needs to get beef and pays for the beef using the money they got
> > from me for the hamburger. No problem.
>
> This is a poor analogy, since there is nothing McDonald's customers do which
> affects Burger King's customers in the same way as JoeISP's customer's
> deaggregation affects JaneISP's customers.
This is not entirely correct. McDonald's customers may choose to stand in
front of Burger Kings blocking traffic to it.
Alex
