[governance] Euro content charging coming?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 28.04.11 18:03, Roland Perry wrote:
>
> Proposing settlement-based peering, as I warned about a week or two ago.
>
Settlement based peering has existed since the commercialization of 
Internet. In general, the smaller provider is paying the larger provider 
for 'connectivity'.

An old-time (90's) joke: "We in Europe pay the poor Americans, in order 
for them to have connectivity to our network(s)."

I do not believe, this is the reason for the proposal, but -- telecoms 
historically understand settlements best.

Probably, the real reason is that those telecoms try to be "competitive" 
by subsidizing their services by such settlements. Mobile Internet has 
always been expensive and is likely to continue to be. Mostly because of 
the highly regulated market.

My opinion: Internet has been successful, because no one-to-one 
agreements and settlements needed to be made between participating 
parties. All other networks, that used that model (X.25 networks, X.400 
networks) went to history.

It is not likely this will fly in Internet. At the extreme, those mobile 
users will not receive service from the content providers.

Daniel
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