Re: PCH Peering Paper

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
>
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> > The premise above therefore devolves to: Since most of the traffic is to those networks, then most of the bits flow 
> > over contracted peerings.
> >
> > Perhaps “most” can be argued, but obviously a significant portion of all peering bits flow over contracted sessions. 
> > Hopefully we can all agree on that.
>
> There’s greater complexity here, however…
>
> Many of the bits that flow flow over several networks between their source and destination. Likely the vast majority 
> of bits traverse at least 3 autonomous systems in the process.
>
> So when you want to count traffic that went over a non-contract peering session vs. traffic that went over a contract 
> peering session, how do you count traffic that traverses some of each?

Lower in my post:

On Feb 16, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> I guess you could say the bits sent over transit will eventually hit a contracted peering session, since the people 
> in the core contract their sessions. But does that matter to the small guys?


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TTFN,
patrick