On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> wrote:
* jnanog@gmail.com (Rick Astley) [Mon 28 Apr 2014, 05:08 CEST]:
If you think prices for residential broadband are bad now if you passed a law that says all content providers big and small must have settlement free
Lower it?
Right now broadband providers pay a transit provider who then get paid by content providers to carry the bits, generally because broadband providers don't want to think about running IP networks because they their skills lie more in the television part of RF networks.
People are never gonna give this thread up, I see. Easily one of the longest threads in recent nanog history and I'm starting to see points rehashed and strawmen trotted out. Comcast sells wholesale transit - http://www.comcast.com/dedicatedinternet/?SCRedirect=true And it has a settlement free peering policy - with a stated requirement that traffic exchanged be symmetrical. http://www.comcast.com/peering
Applicant must maintain a traffic scale between its network and Comcast that enables a general balance of inbound versus outbound traffic. The network cost burden for carrying traffic between networks shall be similar to justify SFI
Now, that big elephant in the room taken into account, where do the middlemen come in here? --srs