Le jeudi 05 avril 2012 à 11:19 -0700, Martin J. Levy a écrit : > Even the English speaking world is seeing what's going on in France ... > > > http://www.telecompaper.com/news/france-telecom-commits-to-more-transparency-in-peering > > ... enjoy!
Hi Martin, Sure, no surprise! v6 as well ? :) mh > > Martin > > Martin J. Levy > Director IPv6 Strategy > Hurricane Electric > 760 Mission Court, > Fremont, CA 94539, USA > +1 408 499 3801 (mobile) > [email protected] (email) > http://he.net/ (web) > > -------------------- > > News > France Telecom commits to more transparency in peering > Wednesday 4 April 2012 | 10:50 CET > > France Telecom-Orange has made a commitment to the Competition Authority to > make its internet interconnection pricing and technical offer more > transparent following a regulatory decision stemming from a January 2011 > complaint by US internet connectivity provider Cogent. At the time Orange > customers complained of slower downloads from MegaUpload and MegaVideo, > carried by Cogent. The US firm accused France Telecom-Orange of throttling > access to its users and to not have invested enough for acceptable QoS. The > French operator sought additional payment to open new interconnection > capacity as free peering would not be able to compensate for much higher > traffic in one direction than in the other. The Competition Authority > criticised France Telecom-Orange for the opacity of its arrangement with its > Open Transit subsidiary, a competitor of Cogent, finding that the prices > charged to an unnamed very popular website seem to be substantially lower > than market rates. However it did not find the French operator to have broken > its peering agreement by refusing Cogent access to its customers, but only > wanted to be paid for it. The regulator will run market tests until 3 May to > collect observations from websites, hosts, transit operators, ISPs and other > actors about France Telecom's proposals. It will meet again to determine > whether the proposed commitments are sufficient to meet competition concerns. > > > > --------------------------- > Liste de diffusion du FRnOG > http://www.frnog.org/ --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
