----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Lewis" <[email protected]>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, William Herrin wrote: >> It gives me, your paying customer, less control over my routing >> through your network than if I wasn't your paying customer. That >> seems... backwards. > > Not at all. Think like a service provider. > > "I've got packets to deliver. I've got 3 different classes of paths I can > use. One of them, I get paid to use. One is cost neutral. The last one, > I pay to use." > > Which path would you pick (assuming you're trying to maximize revenue > from your network)? And here, you nail it, Jon: The Internet stopped being an engineering construct many years ago, to its--and our--detriment; things work much more poorly, and harder to understand and diagnose and fix, because of this. His example, of packets going from Miami to Ft Lauderdale via One Wilshire, is a classic example. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
