Whatever. No-one's actually trying to do "some packets are more equal than others" here in Europe, except for the mobile people with IMS and such. BT just transferred its access network into a new division with a specific remit to provide open access to all ISPs and alt- tels who want it. It's in the US that the RBOCs and cablesters are actually doing this. On 1/20/06, Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:44:59 +0000, "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com> said:
proving once again that "peering ratios" only matter if the other guy's customers can live without your "assymetric" content, here are two articles i saw today via slashdot. what's interesting to me is whether bellsouth will be sued some time later by some other content provider for de-peering them without also having applied the same rules to google. note, this isn't a bellsouth-specific rant, they just happen to be mentioned in today's story.
Carriers trying to charge content-providers for access to their network/customers is just part of a greater picture. The telco industry is fighting to re-establish their dominant position. Traditionally they've been able to pocket (extort) a large portion of the revenue for 3rd-party PSTN services (content services) themselves. Over the last decade they've gained control of the ISP-industry and noe they want to achieve the same level of control of the internet. The most conservative are even suggesting to remove internet-governance from the public domain. The European telecoms industry is openly urging the UN to take control of ICANN's role. In the process they are trying to place the functions of IANA and IETF in their belowed ITU. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate IP as a product, to be able to sell access to sub-protocols as individual services.
//per -- Per Heldal http://heldal.eml.cc/