----- Original Message ----- > From: na...@brettglass.com > This is Brett Glass; I have been alerted to some of the responses to my > message (which was cross-posted by a third party) and have temporarily > joined the list to chime in. The following is my response to his > message, edited slightly to include some new information.
Well, they were actually responses to *my* message, which made a fundamental point which you carefully don't address here at all, amongst what our British counterparts would probably term your whinging. :-) > If Netflix were a good citizen, it would (a) let ISPs cache content; > (b) pay them > equitably for direct connections (smaller and more remote ISPs have > higher costs > per customer and should get MORE per account than Comcast, rather than > receiving > nothing); and (c) work with ISPs to develop updated technology that > makes streaming > more efficient. Bandwidth is expensive, and unicast streaming without > caching is by > far the most inefficient conceivable way of delivering "fat" content > to the consumer. Bandwidth is expensive. Given. You made the wrong gamble on how asymmetrical your customers connections would *really* be. But that doesn't make that traffic *not be* -- as your brothers in the telco arm would phrase it -- "at your customers' instance", rather than, as your arguments all assume, at Netflix's. About 80% of so of the responses I've seen here agree that's a reasonable view of the situation... so we'll for the moment assume that you didn't address it because you *can't* address it. Care to differ? Cheers, -- jra [ As you might imagine, this is a bit of a hobby horse for me; Verizon's behavior about municipally owned fiber, and it's attempts to convert post- Sandy customers in NYS from regulated copper to unregulated FiOS service leave a pretty bad taste in my mouth about VZN. ] -- 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