On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
On 2015-12-10 21:39, William Herrin wrote:
Personally, I'm not opposed to this. When each packet has one payer, it doesn't much matter whether the payer is sender or recipient.
If the retail customer pays for $70 for 100 gigs of UBB, and uses 50 gigs of Netflix, then the result is that the customer is still paying $70 for 100 gigs of data, and Netflix now has to pay for 50 gigs of data.
Howdy, You're assuming that: (A) Verizon/ATT will prevent organizations from routing some of their IP addresses via paid zero-rate connections and other IP addresses via settlement-free peering, and (B) organizations which pay for zero-rate will elect not to offer Verizon/ATT customers a choice between paying indirectly for more bandwidth or using the bandwidth they already have. Point (A) is not an unreasonable assumption, but in that case the fraud lies in refusing settlement-free peering when the subscriber has already paid for that bandwidth to happen. It's past time the big networks got spanked for this sort of misbehavior. Let's not cloud the issue by objecting to related behavior that's actually ethical. Point (B) is a free market business decision on the part of Netflix, et. al. If they make a poor one, the competitors nipping at their heels will eat their lunch. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>