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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sending vs requesting. Was: Re: Sprint / Cogent
On Saturday 01 November 2008 20:00:46 Matthew Petach wrote: > Unfortunately, as I'm sure you're all too aware, for public companies, it's > very hard to get away with saying "I was doing what was right for the > Internet, not what would make my business the most money" at a > shareholder meeting, or during an earning's call with Wall Street > analysts; they tend to be very unforgiving of actions that aren't in > line with the short-term profit-making goal, to the point where CEOs > have been ousted and class-action lawsuits threatened when it > seems the actions being taken weren't geared to optimize profits > for the shareholders. The next Great Compromise could be over multihoming of endusers (whether the enduser is a content consumer or a content provider is irrelevant; IP at Layer 3 is peer-to-peer anyway, between end systems). After all, if providers are not willing to 'budge' a little 'for the good of the Internet' then why should endusers reduce or give up multihoming aspirations 'for the good of the Internet?' After all, if access to the 'Internet' is a metric for making money, and money is being lost by access to content consumers being cut due to depeering events outside the enduser's control, then it makes business sense for an enduser to multihome, to bring connectivity events closer to the enduser's control. Want to prevent multihoming exploding routing tables? Prevent the desire to multihome by limiting 'partitioning' events.
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