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From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Netflix inks deal with Verizon; won’t talk to small ISPs
Date: April 29, 2014 at 16:21:23 PDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
I’ve contacted Netflix repeatedly, asking that they simply obey Internet standards and allow me to set up a cache that holds the most popular videos that my customers stream.
Cite an RFC number for this standard, please.
They have insisted that I pay tens of thousands of dollars every month — more than all of my company’s revenues — for expensive leased connections
It strikes me as highly unlikely that Netflix has any reason to care, much less insist, on your participation at exchanges, nor that they would care how you choose to do so.
to one of their relatively few “peering points,”
Really? I count 48. How many exchanges are you offering to peer with them at? I notice a distinct lack of web page at http://lariat.net/peering.
I also notice a distinct lack of an exchange in Laramie, so what are your grounds for all this whining, if you haven’t even bestirred yourself to build an exchange for people to meet you at?
none of which is less than 1100 miles away.
The distance between Laramie and Dallas is 762 miles, the distance between Laramie and Chicago is 929 miles, the distance between Laramie and Portland is 905 miles, the distance between Laramie and San Jose is 913 miles, the distance between Laramie and Seattle is 932 miles. All of which are exchanges where they, along with many hundreds of other ISPs, peer. All of which are less than 1100 miles from Laramie. What’s your point? That it’s _inconvenient_ for you to have to pay your half of the cost of moving your customers’ traffic from Netflix?
Netflix’ disparate treatment of small ISPs threatens broadband competition.
Really? They have a publicly-stated peering policy, which they say applies equally to everyone. They say they’re happy to meet you at any one or more of 48 locations, including most major, and some minor, exchanges. Can you substantiate your claim that they fail to treat everyone by the same terms?
Quit whining and do your job.
-Bill
