Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering (philosophical solution)

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

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