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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
> This message is simply noting that settling for peering traffic > is quite viable, despite assertions to the contrary regarding > traffic generation. But you're making the critical assumption that the peer is more eager to get the traffic delivered than your customers are to receive it. If we were talking about paying to send spam, you'd be entirely right. But we're really talking about paying to deliver web content, and the jury's still out about that. It may turn out to be the case that providers with a lot of retail customers have to accept expensive web-hosting peers as a cost of retaining the dialup customers. Or it may turn out that providers with a lot of web hosting customers may have to pay for peering to get the connectivity that their customers' advertisers demand. But the days of peering purely based on traffic volume were over before they began, the day an international IP link landed in the US paid entirely by the foreign ISP. That was quite a while ago. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [email protected], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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