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At 2:04 AM -0500 1/26/97, Eric D. Madison wrote: >I don't think anyone has actually started charging "settlements" which is >what your CEO is probably talking about. It's been a rumor for quite a >while that settlement based peering will happen. Very similar to how the >utilities companies manage "traffic". You would count bits into your >network from peer X and he would count bits from your network, whoever has >the lowest number has to pay the difference. So, if you are a small >provider, your going to have to pay the big boys to carry your customers >traffic. Welcome to the new Internet, where the bottom line is the >driving factor. Especially since the margins are so low and no-one has >made any money yet (will we ever?). A good reference on financial issues in peering models is http://iepg.org/settlements.html, a paper by Geoff Huston. > >Since some of the larger vendors (Cisco mostly) has introduced accounting >features into their software settlements could start any time. It's just >a matter of time until someone actually announces it.. who will jump >first? I have my guess but I don't think I want to announce it publicly. >:) > >Eric > >On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Dave Curado wrote: > >> >> Curious thing, the CEO of my company called me the other >> day and was worried about who we were peering with. >> It seems someone put a bug in his ear that the larger >> providers were about to start charging some of the smaller >> providers for bilateral peering. >> >> I haven't heard anything about that at all... so either >> a) the ceo is mistaken >> b) I've missed some important annoucement recently >> >> either is possible. >> >> Has anyone else heard anything about this? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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