[85427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering (philosophical solution)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Oct 9 23:27:37 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 10 Oct 2005 03:27:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKIEGJHCAB.davids@webmaster.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
davids@webmaster.com ("David Schwartz") writes:
> I think the industry simply needs to accept that it's more
> expensive to receive traffic than to send it.
It is? For everybody? For always? That's a BIG statement. Can you justify?
> ...
> The question is whether the benefit to each side exceeds their cost.
Yea, verily. But I don't think you'll find a one-cost-fits-all model. When
one person's costs are lower than another and they're doing similar things,
it's often called "efficiency" or "competitiveness". (Just as one example.)
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Paul Vixie
