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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]
On 22 Jan 2008, at 17:30, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hmm, who gets paid? It sounds like your hinting around a telco-type reciprocal payment model (correct me if I'm wrong). Do I pay my upstreams who in turn pay there upstreams and so on and so on? Or, is there some central, uber-authority that gets paid by all of us? It seems to me that there are many billing models that accommodate point-to-point relationships, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a mental model of payment in the many-to-many environment in the DFZ. People pay the RIRs. The RIRs spend money on parties for network operators. I think that charging for deaggregation of PA is hard to imagine. I think charging for PI as a model may have been worthy of consideration several years ago, but since we're only months away from entire product lines of deployed edge kit nolonger accepting a full table, the battle is over (and operators lost). Andy
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