On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=na...@bakker.net> wrote: > * jna...@gmail.com (Rick Astley) [Mon 28 Apr 2014, 05:08 CEST]: >> >> If you think prices for residential broadband are bad now if you passed a >> law that says all content providers big and small must have settlement free > > Lower it? > > Right now broadband providers pay a transit provider who then get paid > by content providers to carry the bits, generally because broadband > providers don't want to think about running IP networks because they > their skills lie more in the television part of RF networks.
People are never gonna give this thread up, I see. Easily one of the longest threads in recent nanog history and I'm starting to see points rehashed and strawmen trotted out. Comcast sells wholesale transit - http://www.comcast.com/dedicatedinternet/?SCRedirect=true And it has a settlement free peering policy - with a stated requirement that traffic exchanged be symmetrical. http://www.comcast.com/peering > Applicant must maintain a traffic scale between its network and > Comcast that enables a general balance of inbound versus > outbound traffic. The network cost burden for carrying traffic > between networks shall be similar to justify SFI Now, that big elephant in the room taken into account, where do the middlemen come in here? --srs
