BBN/GTEI
Robert Bowman
rob at elite.exodus.net
Fri Aug 21 22:59:30 UTC 1998
Isn't being a pioneer doing best-exit to eliminate the cost imbalances?
I thought that was the whole idea behind what BBN/Exodus were doing.
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> > In fact, what you're advocating is billing the sender for *solicited data*
> > from the recipient's point of view!
>
> Not at all. I am advocating paying for transit. When A and B use roughly
> the same amount of each other's transit, there is no point in counting the
> difference. But when you have an asymmetric situation, rather than cutting
> off peering altogether because the other guy is too different, why not
> have a scalable peering situation that directly addresses the asymmetry in
> traffic flows. The only other solution that I can see is for the network
> receiving the huge incoming flow to direct all that web traffic through
> transparent web caches at each exchange point. However that just raises
> increased barriers to peering and does not deal with non-cacheable
> dataflows which are increasing over time. Scalable peering would reduce
> the barriers to peering and make it easier for new players to buy in. They
> would still have to build a truly national network, but at that point they
> could not have the door slammed in their faces.
>
> Regardless of whether my proposed solution is the correct one or just a
> bad idea produced by indigestion, you cannot deny that the asymmetry
> between networks is increasing as network providers specialize the
> services they offer. The old-fashioned rough-cut peering is becoming more
> and more unsuitable as the only peering option. We need new ways to do
> this. Somebody has to take the first step. Somebody has to be a pioneer.
>
> The details can always be hashed out later.
>
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