<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:22 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear Alejandro,<br>
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Thanks for your response. <br>
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No, I have not been talking to the ISPs in India, and do not
understand the situation really well. However I have heard remarks
that, even after many years of setting up of India's national
Internet exchange NIXI, a very larger part of the domestic traffic
still gets routed from outside back to India.<br></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some of that maybe due to Traffic engineering. If it is cheaper to send traffic to AMS-IX or LINX than NIXI, folk will do that, even though it means that traffic goes to the EU and comes back.</div>
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It appears to me that compulsory exchange of traffic, on open
peering basis, with zero settlement charges, would be good for an
open and competitive Internet ecology.</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Except that of course you have just turned paying customers into peers, dramatically reducing revenue and doing nearly as much damage to the Internet charging system as "sending party network pays" would.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Verdana"> I read that NIXI in India
has some settlement arrangement based on requester pays.</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This would be very surprising indeed. Do you have a link?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<snip></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Verdana">I do think that some amount of public interest regulation is
required</font><font face="Verdana"> at the transport layer of the
Internet</font><font face="Verdana"> to keep the Internet as a
really open system</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>read the article Alx just sent you. I think you will change your mind.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>
Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>