nanog mailing list archives
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
From: Roger Bohn <Rbohn () UCSD edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:23:06 -0700
At 8:36 PM -0700 10/24/96, Vadim Antonov wrote:
Note that i didn't even talk about less measurabe, but way too more important things like hosting of information suppliers. Say, Big Provider connects 1000 web sites; Small Provider hosts 1 site -- benefit from peering in terms of Web site diversity to the Big Provider's customers is 0.1%. To Small Provider's customers the benefit of peering is 99.9%.
Oops, this has an arithmetic fallacy. Assuming that Big Provider also has 1000x more customers than Small Provider, and that all 1001 web sites are equally attractive, then there are 1000 BP customers each with a .001 chance of wanting to surf the SP web site. Compare this with 1 SP customer with a .999 chance of wanting to surf a BP web site, and a .001 chance of surfing the SP web site. In both directions the average traffic is the same (1 surf per unit time); SP is getting the same information supply benefit as BP. Of course this will show up as equal traffic in both directions, so it would be a wash under settlements. To the extent that one side's sites are better for surfing (e.g. higher wavers :-) or has proportionally fewer customers, traffic will be unequal. Roger - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Vadim Antonov (Oct 24)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Peter Galbavy (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Geoff Huston (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Edward Vielmetti (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: alex (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Michael Dillon (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Karl Denninger (Oct 27)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Roger Bohn (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Azeem Azhar (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Robert E. Seastrom (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jeremy Porter (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Alex.Bligh (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Todd Graham Lewis (Oct 25)