> On Feb 17, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > >> The premise above therefore devolves to: Since most of the traffic is to >> those networks, then most of the bits flow over contracted peerings. >> >> Perhaps “most” can be argued, but obviously a significant portion of all >> peering bits flow over contracted sessions. Hopefully we can all agree on >> that. > > There’s greater complexity here, however… > > Many of the bits that flow flow over several networks between their source > and destination. Likely the vast majority of bits traverse at least 3 > autonomous systems in the process. > > So when you want to count traffic that went over a non-contract peering > session vs. traffic that went over a contract peering session, how do you > count traffic that traverses some of each?
Lower in my post: On Feb 16, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > I guess you could say the bits sent over transit will eventually hit a > contracted peering session, since the people in the core contract their > sessions. But does that matter to the small guys? -- TTFN, patrick
