Michael Dillon wrote:
P.S. would the Internet be worse off if all traffic
exchange was paid for and there was no settlement
free interconnect at all? I.e. paid peering, paid
full transit and paid partial transit on the menu?
Would you care to speculate on which party receives the greater benefit:
the sender of bytes, or the receiver of bytes?
If both the sender and receiver are being billed for the traffic by
their respective (different) service providers (all other issues being
equal) is one provider in a better position than the other?
Cheers,
-Benson
bensons@savvis.net ("Schliesser, Benson") writes:
Would you care to speculate on which party receives the greater benefit:
the sender of bytes, or the receiver of bytes?
If both the sender and receiver are being billed for the traffic by
their respective (different) service providers (all other issues being
equal) is one provider in a better position than the other?
If it's still common for one to be billed only for "highest of in vs. out"
then there's no way to compare the benefits since there's always a "shadow"
direction and it won't be symmetric among flow endpoints.