[85217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Thu Oct 6 07:03:38 2005
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:00:36 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Depeering never makes sense to me. Customers of both companies are
> expecting their vendor to connect them to the customers of the other
> company. These customers are each paying their respective vendor for
> this service. Why should one vendor pay the other for this traffic that
> is mutually beneficial to them while the other pays nothing? Why does
> the amount of bandwidth or the direction it travels make any difference?
> The customers are PAYING for the bandwidth. If each vendor pays their
> own costs to a peering point then they should be passing that cost onto
> their respective customers as part of the *customer's* bandwidth bill.
Perhaps someone wants to make this argument before a judge
in order to set a legal precedent for mandatory peering
with settlements?
--Michael Dillon
