[17322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri May 29 10:21:02 1998
To: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "29 May 1998 07:02:23 -0000."
<g6pvgximup.fsf@daedalus.crosslink.net>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:59:15 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Michael Shields writes:
> Despite preductions, very few resources have ever actually become "too
> cheap to meter".
Television? Local phone service in many places? Matchbooks? Sewer
service?
> Can you back up your comment about metering requiring three times the
> current CPU capacity of routers?
It wasn't my comment, but I'll point out that routers are NOT in
general built for this task. Indeed, getting them to do what they were
built for is usually hard enough...
Perry
