[17369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: flat vs non-flat charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Fri May 29 16:35:28 1998
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Jerry Scharf" <scharf@vix.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:01:15 -0700
Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com> wrote:
>I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. ...
>Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP
>services is just not right.
>
I agree that using the regulated telephone network for Internet pricing
doesn't make sense, but there is a difference developing on the Net between
locally cached data and data that has to be fetched from a distance. I would
not be surprised to find differential pricing being used to incent browsers
to re-use locally cached data whenever possible.
--Kent
