IP: wonder if this is worth millions a year,from Edupage

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

And for this remarkable insight Xerox funds their lab. Come on now, that
sounds like the time sharing days. Then the idea was to insert an artifical
delay so you never got too good a service and thus you will submit less load.


Dave


RESEARCHERS ADVOCATE INTERNET USE CHARGE


Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center conducted tests that
showed the average packet of digital data took 189 milliseconds to travel
from Stanford University to Cranfield University in Great Britain and
then back to Stanford.  They then developed a statistical model of 
Internet traffic showing that when users are encouraged by fast 
response times, they ramp up their Internet activities, thus creating 
the "storms," or bursts of congestion, that continually plague the Net.  
When the response time slows to a crawl, users back off, and eventually 
things get back to normal.  To avoid the feast-or-famine scenario, the 
researchers advocate charging all users according to the amount of 
bandwidth they use.  (Chronicle of Higher Education 1 Aug 97)




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