On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:47 AM Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:16 AM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM Baldur Norddahl >> <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Around here there are certain expectations if you sell a product called IP >> > Transit and other expectations if you call the product paid peering. The >> > latter is not providing the whole internet and is cheaper. >> >> The problem with paid peering is that it creates a conflict of >> interest which corruptly influences the company's behavior. Two >> customers are paying you in full for a service but if one elects not >> to pay you will also deny or degrade the service to the other one who >> has, in fact, paid you. > > > The phrase "paying you in full" is the stumbling point with your > claim. > > As Baldur noted, "paid peer [...] is not providing the whole > internet and is cheaper."
Since peering customers can only reach transit customers, it follows that one of the customers in the equation is a fully-paid transit customer. That fully paid customer's service is degraded or denied unless the peering customer also pays. Hence the conflict of interest. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/