2012/5/31 Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com
wrote:
The internet by definition is a network of network so no one entity can keep traffic segregated to their network. Modifying someone else routing advertisements without their consent is just as bad as filtering them in my opinion. Doing so to move traffic into your AS in order to gain an advantage in peering arrangements and make more money off of the end user is just dastardly.
While this is a nice thought, it's not practical in reality. If you give someone a knob, they are going to turn it. Someone will look to take advantage of it.
If you pay me, fine. If you don't pay me, I'm not going to allow you to potentially cost me significant dollars in infrastructure costs just to preserve the notion of free love and peering :)
If you consider not mucking with my advertisements and those of my customers "free love" then I hope you don't work for one of my upstreams. Likewise, if you consider not hijacking my traffic to drive up revenue as "cost". Anything to make a buck I suppose. sigh..