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Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy)
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () mfnx net>
Date: 15 Jan 2001 22:49:18 -0800
sean () donelan com (Sean Donelan) writes:
"Favor"? What, precisely, connotes "favor" in this regard? Sending more, or receiving more? And: why?Which side of the debate do you want to take?
Neither. The argument had better not be about last mile costs, since those are actually comparable when you count them per bit-mile rather than per customer. Nor is it about last mile margins, since if someone is charging $19.95/mo for a service that costs $25.00/mo to provision, then expecting companies who are less stupid than that to go ahead and do some bizarre kind of "profit sharing" anyway is just insulting. I don't see a "favor" being granted here, either by the side who transmits more, or by the side who receives more. Both sides had better be charging what it costs them to provide the service, plus some kind of margin to keep the shareholders in the game. Failing to do this, even if for competitive reasons, does not create liability against those who manage to do it right. After all, in an actual "media", the content providers collect money from the networks who distributed their wares, and those networks then sell the eyeballs to the highest bidder. Fortunately, the internet isn't a "media".
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- Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Daniel L. Golding (Feb 24)
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- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Travis Pugh (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Leo Bicknell (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Christian Nielsen (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Marius Strom (Feb 24)
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- Re: California regulators ordered rolling blackouts hardie (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Christian Nielsen (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Daniel L. Golding (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Hal Murray (Feb 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Roeland Meyer (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Favorites (Re: UUNET peering policy) Sean Donelan (Feb 24)