On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 06:19:48 pm Reinier Battenberg wrote: > If they would have changed their policy from 'one cache > for a country' to 'one cache per ISP' the result will be > that the favor the big ISPs.
I can't speak to Google's policy (although I may know a little about why they make the decisions they do), but they likely have a reason why they're doing what they're doing. Bottom line, there's no incentive for ISP's carrying Google resources to pass it on to non-customers. > As it is Googles incentive to get as many people online > as possible, favoring the big ISPs is not a good idea. It's an economics game, too. > Stimulating competition is good, awarding the big guys is > stiffling. Again, there's the issue of economics. > The endresult might just as well be fewer people online. Users will always reach Google. Whether the Google resources are hosted by your ISP or not is a performance and economics issue, not an access issue. > (having said that, if the ISP's got their head together > and shared the costs of the cache amongst themselves, > they would all benefit. It's like trying to get all African countries into a single economic union. The level of economic development across each is not the same. On an issue like this, dividing equity amongst the ISP's would be convoluted at best. > As the ISPs have not read up on > Game Theory, and they think the internet originates from > their own belly button, that is the best outcome, and > also one of the most unlikely ones. You're right. It's ideal, but unlikely. Cheers, Mark.
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