Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations

[Matt Ranney <mjr () wacky eit com>]

Jim Dixon writes...
>
[...]
> to step forward at this point -- more Web traffic flows from the UK 
> to the US.  That is, there is a small net flow of _benefit_ to the US
> and a very large net imbalance in _costs_ to the UK.

Obviously the costs are different, but how exactly are you measuring
"benefit"?  What if there are just more net-savvy folks the UK that
want to run Web sites, resulting in a higher ratio of servers to
browsers than in the US?  Don't those people that put up Web servers
then want people in the US to see them?
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