Re: flat vs non-flat charging

["Kent W. England" <kwe () geo net>]

Jerry Scharf <scharf () vix com> wrote:
> I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. ...
> Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP
> services is just not right.
I agree that using the regulated telephone network for Internet pricing
doesn't make sense, but there is a difference developing on the Net between
locally cached data and data that has to be fetched from a distance. I would
not be surprised to find differential pricing being used to incent browsers
to re-use locally cached data whenever possible.

--Kent