On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:47 AM Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:16 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
Around here there are certain expectations if you sell a product called IP Transit and other expectations if you call the product paid peering. The latter is not providing the whole internet and is cheaper.
The problem with paid peering is that it creates a conflict of interest which corruptly influences the company's behavior. Two customers are paying you in full for a service but if one elects not to pay you will also deny or degrade the service to the other one who has, in fact, paid you.
The phrase "paying you in full" is the stumbling point with your claim.
As Baldur noted, "paid peer [...] is not providing the whole internet and is cheaper."
Since peering customers can only reach transit customers, it follows that one of the customers in the equation is a fully-paid transit customer. That fully paid customer's service is degraded or denied unless the peering customer also pays. Hence the conflict of interest. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/