[17219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Murray)
Wed May 27 22:34:03 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: murray@pa.dec.com
Date: Wed, 27 May 98 19:30:36 -0700
From: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
> 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.
There is another reason why some people don't like metering - it
makes predicting costs much more difficult. Imagine your local library
or university dept trying to budget for internet access.
I think I saw a comment that half the cost of a long distance call
was collecting the data and processing the billing. Can anybody
verify that?
> 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).
How much trouble is it to collect the billing data?
What are the relative rates for domestic/cache/external?
