[5944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policy ( was Re: AGIS/DIGEX )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Oct 30 11:58:33 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: lists@reflections.mindspring.com (Todd Graham Lewis)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:49:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pritish@iocenter.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961030113307.1642J-100000@reflections.mindspring.com> from "Todd Graham Lewis" at Oct 30, 96 11:34:47 am
> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Pritish Shah wrote:
>
> > So here is my question -- why is this kind of arrangement not being used
> > anywhere???
>
> Because direction of traffic flow is meaningless as an indicator of
> direction of value flow, if you will.
>
> I send 5MB across Sprint's network. Am I responsible for paying for that
> traffic, or is Sprint? Think carefully before you answer, or better yet,
> check what the NANOG archives have to say on the topic.
>
> Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering
You can make an argument either way.
"I'm only sending you that 5mb/sec of data because your educational, ISP,
and business customers are asking me for it with Netscape [or whatever]."
"I'm only receiving that 5mb/sec of data because your corporate and ISP
customers have web servers - and they pay you to make their data available
to the world."
Avi
