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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
> Depeering never makes sense to me. Customers of both companies are > expecting their vendor to connect them to the customers of the other > company. These customers are each paying their respective vendor for > this service. Why should one vendor pay the other for this traffic that > is mutually beneficial to them while the other pays nothing? Why does > the amount of bandwidth or the direction it travels make any difference? > The customers are PAYING for the bandwidth. If each vendor pays their > own costs to a peering point then they should be passing that cost onto > their respective customers as part of the *customer's* bandwidth bill. Perhaps someone wants to make this argument before a judge in order to set a legal precedent for mandatory peering with settlements? --Michael Dillon |