[17214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Prior)
Wed May 27 20:58:35 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 18:45:19 -0400."
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:15:53 +0930
From: Mark Prior <mrp@connect.com.au>
1) The price of metering packets by destination exceeds the cost of
providing the underlying service as it stands. This does not make me
think that distance sensitive pricing has a bright future.
This depends on what part of the planet you are on. If you have to
support the cost of trans oceanic links then there certainly is the
incentive to at least introduce price points for "domestic" traffic
and "international".
In short, I see no economic basis for such metering, and no moves
towards such metering. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt that we're going
to see any change in this any time soon.
I think it's a North American view of the world, unsurprising on NANOG
:-) Traffic metering is the dominant charging mechanism for permanent
connections in Oz and Connect differentiate traffic based on its
source (domestic/cache/external).
Mark.
