[7271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering charges?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Mon Jan 27 06:52:38 1997
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 1997 22:44:21 PST."
<199701270644.WAA05118@quest.pluris.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:44:38 +0000
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> I love it. Do you really think you discovered a fount of money? Any settlement
> game is zero-sum by definition. When ISP A pays ISP B some sum, A has
> less resources to invest into infrastructure. On average, customers
> do not win.
Whilst the rest of your message makes perfect sense, I don't think
this does. Settlment peering can easilly be +ve sum for A&B. For
instance ISP C could lose out. Very few economic transactions are zero
sum (except perhaps under perfect competition). Consider the limiting
case where A sells B transit. Hopefully this is not zero sum or we
should be looking for other jobs...
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
