[7228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering charges?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Jan 26 02:57:25 1997
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:54:18 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: davec@ziplink.net, madison@queber.acsi.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Eric D. Madison wrote:
>Since some of the larger vendors (Cisco mostly) has introduced accounting
>features into their software settlements could start any time.
a) the accounting was there for years, so what
b) a 100-byte packet travelled from provider A to provider B. Should A pay
to B or vice versa?
So far nobody gave any useful answer to that question.
There are no settlements because traffic has little relevance to relative
worth of connectivity from one provider to another. The large ISPs are
generally interested in market share or peers, not in volume of mutual traffic.
--vadim
