On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Travis Pugh wrote:
Warning: the following is oversimplified:
I think what it comes down to, and what it has come down to at least since the inception of hosting companies who spew large amounts of traffic back at the access networks, is who gets paid twice for carrying the traffic? Does UUNET get paid twice for carrying the traffic, once by their customer that pays for dial or leased line access and once by the hosting company that pays for peering because their traffic ratio is off? This seems to be the status quo. The other way around would mean that the hosting company got paid twice for carrying the traffic.
If I am a generic business, and I connect to UUNET twice, in different locations, and the ONLY traffic I send is between my two offices, should I expect a discount on transit? No. I would expect to pay it at both ends. What is the difference? -- "Do not pound nails into glass", said Tom painstakingly. Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net