Re: some interestiing thoughts (please do not re-distribute to com-priv

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

re:


> Idea 1. While I was thinking of the above,  I had an evil thought. How does
> on fund the infrastructure in a reasonable way. The idea of a VAT tax
> imposed on network services and goods seems like a way of creating a cash
> flow that could be used to pay for research, entitlements etc. Just an
> idea. 




Just to avoid confusion, the VAT was to fund the lifeline services and
other services that in the telephone business were loaded onto other rates.
If one has a real open system , it may either end up with an "assigned
risk" to all providers or a VAT that gets used for such services -- a $
pool