UUNET Press Release on Peering

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From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>

[snip]

As it turns out, the inequality is actually in the other direction.
UUnet is a consumer, not a provider, requesting the traffic from the web
farms. So, it would be the consumers paying the small ISPs, paying
UUnet, paying the web farms.

UUnet wants it both ways, with them getting paid in the middle....

Of course, if UUNET (and other BB providers) can't make enough money to keep
their network in place and their people motivated (and compensated) properly,
they'll have no reason to stay in business, and then the server farms will
become regional islands anyway.

UUNET would only be interested in paying a farm that they owned!

   INTERNET - CONTENT = TRANSPORT

-rb

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UUNET would only be interested in paying a farm that they owned!

   INTERNET - CONTENT = TRANSPORT

Okay, I know someone else is going to do it, so I might as well:

How does your above equation make your point (assuming for a fact its
even accurate)

  INTERNET = TRANSPORT + CONTENT

  INTERNET - TRANSPORT = CONTENT

I guess it can equally prove that UUNet should pay for web farms. (this
is not an opinion statement, just algebra). If we wanted to get really
specific, there is another equation

    - INTERNET = TRANSPORT + CONSUMERS

therefore: TRANSPORT + CONTENT = -(TRANSPORT + CONSUMERS)

      CONTENT = -CONSUMERS

What does that prove? Content has to go somewhere that is, the consumers.

-Deepak.