net neutrality and peering wars continue

Thu Jun 20 22:26:01 UTC 2013

* owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong) [Thu 20 Jun 2013, 23:38 CEST]:
>On Jun 20, 2013, at 10:39 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog at bakker.net> wrote:
>> * woody at pch.net (Bill Woodcock) [Thu 20 Jun 2013, 16:59 CEST]:
>>>On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:37 AM, Benson Schliesser 
>>><bensons at queuefull.net> wrote:
>>>>Right. By "sending peer" I meant the network transmitting a packet
[...]
>>>every packet in one direction is balanced by a packet in the other direction
>>
>>You're mistaken if you think that CDNs have equal number of 
>>packets going in and out.
>
>They are roughly equal (modulo delayed acks, etc.). However, the 
>number of octets is very different from the number of packets. There 
>is much greater asymmetry in number of octets than in number of 
>packets.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Also, if you don't have data, best to keep your opinion to yourself, 
because you might well be wrong.

	-- Niels.