On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 1:47 PM Matthew Petach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Customer A is full transit paying customer. > in case 2, Customer B is a paid peering customer. > > Can you explain what it is I'm missing here? ^_^;
The part where customer A is paying for a connection to "the Internet" at some data rate, which includes the network run by customer B. REGARDLESS of whether B pays the same service provider. If the service rendered to A is changed by B's payment (or lack), that's a conflict of interest. To remove the conflict of interest, you either have to fiddle the definition of what customer A is buying, turning it into something that would not be obvious to an ordinary person or you have or you have to allow B to engage in settlement free peering if they want to. Or, counterintuitively, pay your own transit provider enough to handle any capacity A and B together care to consume. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin [email protected] https://bill.herrin.us/
