DNS pulling BGP routes?

Mon Oct 18 20:17:31 UTC 2021

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:47 AM Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:16 AM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM Baldur Norddahl
>> <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Around here there are certain expectations if you sell a product called IP Transit and other expectations if you call the product paid peering. The latter is not providing the whole internet and is cheaper.
>>
>> The problem with paid peering is that it creates a conflict of
>> interest which corruptly influences the company's behavior. Two
>> customers are paying you in full for a service but if one elects not
>> to pay you will also deny or degrade the service to the other one who
>> has, in fact, paid you.
>
>
> The phrase "paying you in full" is the stumbling point with your
> claim.
>
> As Baldur noted, "paid peer [...] is not providing the whole
> internet and is cheaper."

Since peering customers can only reach transit customers, it follows
that one of the customers in the equation is a fully-paid transit
customer. That fully paid customer's service is degraded or denied
unless the peering customer also pays. Hence the conflict of interest.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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