On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > [snip] > > Who's gonna depeer Cogent *now*? > > Probably noone....... at least not without compromising and first > peering with Netflix. > > It would be interesting if Google, Wikimedia, CBS/ABC, CNN, Walmart, > Espn, Salesforce, BoFa, Weather.com, Dropbox, Paypal, Netflix, > Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay, Wordpress.com, > Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Forbes, Zillow, formed a > little club and said > > > "OK, Tier1.. providers.. we're not paying you guys for transit > anymore; your customers want our stuff and will consider their > internet service DOWN if they can't get it. You are going to pay us > for a fast lane to our content now. If you want it, please start > sending us your bids, now." > > > > > Cheers, > > -- jra > -- > -JH > > Any discussions among some subsets of those named entities that may or may not have ever occurred may have quickly stumbled across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_in_restraint_of_trade and decided that colluding to form such a cartel might potentially be a Bad Thing(tm), at which point those discussions which may not have indeed ever happened instead adjourned to the bar for much safer forms of discourse. Matt
