...the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This "rule" is too simple to game, to have ever been a functioning rule. Netf

...the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This "rule" is too simple to game, to have ever been a functioning rule. Netflix could have just patched their app to constantly upload lots of random data. This would have killed ISPs who often expect mostly-down traffic profiles, but it would have evened out "the ratio" so it theoretically would have won the peering argument. Of course, Netflix never did this, which proves that this so-called rule never really governed anything.