On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Jim Mercer<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:44:21PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> My fav part: >> <quote> >> "That's precisely how packets move around the internet, sometimes in a >> many as 25 or 30 hops with the intervening entities passing the data >> around having no contractual or legal obligation to the original >> sender or to the receiver." >> </quote> >> >> How many of you pass packets without getting paid? > > in the case of intervening entities, it is true that they have no link to > the sender or receiver. my packets from office to home can traverse at 3 > or more networks that are not paid by me, or my company.
If I pay you to send my packets and you pay bob to send my packets then I have paid bob to send my packets. Transitive property of payment. ;-) 'Couse bob doesn't pay claire anything but denise pays claire to receive packets for denise, my packets are intended for denise and bob and claire have a peering agreement in which they agree to swap already-paid traffic directly rather than both paying ed to do it for them. So it ain't free and at each step there is a contractual obligation to at least one of the sender or receiver. Regards, Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
