On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Blake Hudson <bl...@ispn.net> wrote: > in the context of this discussion I think it's silly for a residential ISP > to purport themselves to be a neutral carrier of traffic and expect peering > ratios to be symmetric
is 'symmetric traffic ratios' even relevant though? Peering is about offsetting costs, right? it might not be important that the ratio be 1:1 or 2:1... or even 10:1, if it's going to cost you 20x to get the traffic over longer/transit/etc paths... or if you have to build into some horrific location(s) to access the content in question. Harping on symmetric ratios seems very 1990... and not particularly germaine to the conversation at hand.
