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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
From: salo () msc edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:11:39 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:12:51 -0700 From: Vadim Antonov <avg () quake net> To: ed () texas net, jerry () fc net Subject: Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Cc: nanog () merit edu [...] To be more precise it would have had merit if Internet metering was at least remotely technically feasible. [...]
The easiest point to measure traffic is undoubtedly on the link between the customer and its ISP. I believe that many ISPs are already measuring the total amount of traffic into and out of each customer. I even saw a complicated pricing formula from one ISP which added a surcharge cor customers which passed a lot of traffic over the last time period (some number of months, I seem to recall). So, at least at one point, we already have at least one example of an ISP which had a component of its pricing based on the amount of traffic transferred over a dedicated connection. A number of other usage-based charging schemes have been proposed which were based on tractable measurements, (e.g., settlements of all sorts of flavors, combits, ...). Measuring traffic accurately enough to use the results in charging is not hard. On the other hand, it is possible to invent measuring schemes which are impossible to implement, (e.g., a host-to-host traffic matrix gathered somewhere nearer the "core" [whatever that is] of the Net. On the other hand, I probably missed your point... -tjs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS, (continued)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Jeremy Porter (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Edward Henigin (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Edward Henigin (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Alan Hannan (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Matt Ranney (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Avi Freedman (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Curtis Villamizar (Aug 29)