At 02:15 PM 7/1/2002 -0400, Ukyo Kuonji wrote:
>>From: Paul A Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Since this is basically a financial issue (and not really a regulatory
>>issue), the only way you could make it 'fair' is to have some kind of
>>mandate from a government body to MAKE peering 'fair'. The only way _I_
>>would buy off on that, would be to have some kind of subsidy paid from tax
>>dollars to the carriers in question to 'force' them to peer with people who
>>have no other redeeming value.
>
>You wouldn't buy the notion of reciprical billing? I think this would
>most likely be the fairest, but maybe the hardest to implement. It would
>either have to be done at the end points, or at every interconnect. In
>this method, if the traffic across an interconnect would truely be a 1 to
>1 ratio, then the bills would cancel each other out, where the 1 to 1.6 or
>so would lean in towards favoring the company taking more traffic onto
>it's network.
>
>It's just a thought, and I am not sure how it would work world-wide.
The RBOCs thought the same when they pushed for recip-comp. The CLECs
in general then targeted ISP traffic and recip-comp became a drain to
the RBOC coffers instead of the boon.
Look at the current recip-comp scenario as an exchange of bits/sec instead
of minutes. Do you really think the model will fare any better in the
IP world? In a peering relationship, each derives benefit. Trying to
pin a monetary value on that benefit will never reach a wide enough
agreement to handle a recip-comp model. I think the current 'bill and
keep' model ( which the telco interconnect agreements seem to be trending
toward )
works best for Internet traffic.
To put this another way, imagine two networks. One is a large
content provider, they target webhosting customers. One is a large
access provider, they target end-users. I think that being able to reach
a large number of end-users is a benefit to the first network. I also
think that being able to reach a large amount of content is a benefit to
the second network. If they peer, their traffic ratio will be
1:1 yet both networks gain significant ( imho ) benefit. Bill and keep
seems the only sensible way to me.
-Chris
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