Colleagues, I concur with Randy Bush, whom I've known since he was an Ops Area Director of the IETF(*), the article is quite good, and usefully puts the issues we tend to see in either/or network neutrality narratives in the economics of peering and settlement between bandwidth providers and over-the-top services providers. Anticipating the standard question: what has this to do with ICANN, while there are address block holders and autonomous systems holders, the allocations of those -- the ipv4 run-out scenario we're now in, is not the locus of change, nor is the ICANN vs ITU dance the locus of change, but rather the economics of peering and transit, showing the limitations of ICANN as a technical coordinator of unique endpoints in the change that affects more internet users than the new gTLD program, or the prices of domains in price capped registries. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon (*) I suppose I should mention at some point that I'm a member of the recently formed Performance Directorate of the IETF. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: net neutrality and peering wars continue Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:14:44 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> good article by Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2013/06/19/peering-pressure-the-secret-battle-to-control-t...