--- Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
if i am a paying sbc or other foopoloy dsl customer and i go to <http://content.provider>, why should content.provider pay to give the sbc paying customer what they're already charged for?
There is one scenario where the content.provider is paying the carrier as well - when the content.provider is a direct customer of the carrier, rather than being either a SFI-peer or a customer of an SFI-peer. This of course goes back to the question of depeering/transit/etc which we beat to death a couple of weeks ago - many carriers want to get paid both by the sources and sinks of traffic (it's certainly an understandable, if unlikely, desire). I would just like to point out for the record that none of the recent depeering battles have involved any RBOCs... -David Barak __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com