It is obvious that CDN operators wants to stay away from Internet 
transit. As the number of CDNs and their footprint increase, the volume 
of of CDN traffic increases. In this case, less and less traffic will 
use Internet transit. As Geoff mentioned in another presentation, this 
signals the death of transit.

Hesham

On 11/25/2021 11:11 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Dirk Trossen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>      > It depends on your view what that ISP network should do. Cloudflare's
>      > view pushes for a one ring to rule them all view which follows an "all
>      > traffic to my central pop" (from which the traffic is handed to a
>      > private matrix of non - ISP resources).
>
> It's an architecture which is rather efficient in delivering video to eyeballs.
>
> Geoff's talk was about the possibility that this architecture would
> financially dominate everything else, rendering it uneconomic to maintain the
> other infrastructure that we have come to depend upon.
> (I'd sure like to give this model a name: I'm not satisfied with _CDN-centric_)
>
>> As Dino outlined in an adjacent discussion on addressing, we should maybe
>> have a discussion on what we (as users) want our network to do for us. If
>> decentralisation and distribution is something we may still need and want,
>> routing on semantic enhancements may indeed still have a place.
> LISP is a nice overlay that could be provided as a service via a CDN-centric
> architecture.
>
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