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RE: Sprint peering policy
From: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding () sockeye com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:55:55 -0400
Because it works - the Internet, that is. If peering were broken, the Internet would not function in any sort of reasonable manner. However, it is functioning quite nicely today, even with a huge amount of finacial chaos. Why mess with something that actually works properly? And if you are going to interfere with the normal market processes, doing so through heavyhanded government regulation, is normally the worst way to go about it. A vague sense of unfairness or unhappyness is the worst of reasons to regulate an industry. - Daniel Golding
Usually the pain for one party is greater than the pain for the other, unless they are really peers of each other, in which case settlement free interconnections happen. However, if there isn't equal amounts of pain being felt on both sides, then normally the party with the more hurt tries to redress the issue. Usually this imbalance in perceived value is redressed by one of the parties offering to make up the difference by some form of a transfer of money.and yet, the party who experiences the pain will normally perceive the other party's *intentions* as the cause of that pain. knowing that the pain can be transformed from "can't exchange traffic" pain into "must pay money" pain tends to reinforce this perception. when this situation has existed in other industries, gov't intervention has always resulted. even when the scope is international. i've not been able to puzzle out the reason why the world's gov'ts have not stepped in with some basic interconnection requirements for IP carriers.
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- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 01)
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- Re: Sprint peering policy David Schwartz (Jul 01)
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- RE: Sprint peering policy Paul A Flores (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy David Schwartz (Jul 01)
- Game Theory (was: RE: Sprint peering policy) Scott A Crosby (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Phil Rosenthal (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy David Schwartz (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Daniel Golding (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Daniel Golding (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Phil Rosenthal (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Clayton Fiske (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy alex (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Clayton Fiske (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy alex (Jul 02)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 02)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 02)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 01)