On Jun 19, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
as someone who does not really buy the balanced traffic story, some are eyeballs and some are eye candy and that's just life, seems like a lot of words to justify various attempts at control, higgenbottom's point.
I agree with Randy, but will go one further. Requiring a balanced ratio is extremely bad business because it incentivizes your competitors to compete in your home market. You're a content provider who can't meet ratio requirements? You go into the eyeball space, perhaps by purchasing an eyeball provider, or creating one. Google Fiber, anyone? Having a requirement that's basically "you must compete with me on all the products I sell" is a really dumb peering policy, but that's how the big guys use ratio. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/