From: Andy Davidson (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 05:03:40 EST
On 22 Jan 2008, at 17:30, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> Hmm, who gets paid? It sounds like your hinting around a telco-type
> reciprocal payment model (correct me if I'm wrong). Do I pay my
> upstreams who in turn pay there upstreams and so on and so on? Or,
> is there some central, uber-authority that gets paid by all of us?
> It seems to me that there are many billing models that accommodate
> point-to-point relationships, but I'm having a hard time coming up
> with a mental model of payment in the many-to-many environment in
> the DFZ.
People pay the RIRs.
The RIRs spend money on parties for network operators.
I think that charging for deaggregation of PA is hard to imagine. I
think charging for PI as a model may have been worthy of consideration
several years ago, but since we're only months away from entire
product lines of deployed edge kit nolonger accepting a full table,
the battle is over (and operators lost).
Andy
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