Some good discussion on this at the recent Aspen Institute Net Neutrality panel. http://youtu.be/IEKQmVuqXsg
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > Here's a link to a post from VZN's public policy blog, about Netflix. > > Now, just as a matter of principle, I tend to assume that anything VZN > says in public is a self-serving lie based on a poor understanding of the > Real World... but I did in fact read it. > > Yup. > > The money quote: > > One might wonder why Netflix and its transit providers were the only > ones > that ran into congestion issues. What it boils down to is this: these > other > transit and content providers took steps to ensure that there was > adequate > capacity for their traffic to enter our network. > > "their traffic". > > What, Verizon: Netflix is just sending you that traffic uninvited? > > No: that's *your customers traffic*. You *knew* that there would be > asymmetrical amounts of traffic flowing downhill to your customers, > *or you wouldn't have provisioned nearly uniformly asymmetrical last > mile links to them*. > > You just lost the bet on how much traffic that would be. > > That's why they call it gambling: sometimes you lose. You lost. > Man up and provision usable peering. That traffic is your responsiblity. > If you decided not to charge your customers enough to provision for > it, take it out of retained earnings. > > Just don't try to convince us all that, somehow, that traffic flow isn't > your customers traffic, and thus yours. Netflix's only fault is being > popular. > > > > http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/why-is-netflix-buffering-dispelling-the-congestion-myth > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 > 1274 > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -