I agree symmetry alone is a bad metric and efforts to build a service, or artifically game traffic in order to create symmetry will likely have negative consequences all around. I can¹t speak for all situations, but I believe relative ³balance" was designed to be one of several criteria which outlines the definition of a ³Peer² in the Internet's current two sided market. It is one criteria which helps define some measure of economic trade of network investment to carry traffic between respective customer networks and helps avoid exploitation of the trade relationship. - Kevin On 5/16/14, 12:05 PM, "Brandon Ewing" <nicotine@warningg.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:26:02PM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote:
You want to stream a movie? No problem; the video player opens up a second data port back to a server next to the streaming box; its only purpose is to accept a socket, and send all bits received on it to /dev/null.
You can push the stream back to offloaded cloud now: http://devnull-as-a-service.com/
-- Brandon Ewing (nicotine@warningg.com)