On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net> wrote:
I have no direct knowledge of the situation, but my guess: I suspect the proposal was along the lines of longest-path / best-exit routing by Level(3). In other words, if L(3) carries the traffic (most of the way) to the customer, then Comcast has no complaint--the costs can be more fairly distributed. The "modest investment" is probably in tools to evaluate traffic and routing metrics, to make this work. This isn't really *new* to the peering community, but it isn't normal either.
That is a reasonable guess, but Level3's FCC filing yesterday spells out with certainty that Level3 did offer to "cold potato" traffic onto Comcast (it does not mention the technical means e.g. MED honoring, CDN smarts, or otherwise) and that Comcast refused. [...]
Comcast's latest: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6016064677