[186914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Webb)
Sat Jan 9 11:37:26 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Robert Webb" <rwebb@ropeguru.com>
In-Reply-To: <2007465440.7604.1452355945630.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:37:23 -0500
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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The normal consumer has no way to correlate what the "real" cost is as the
providers keep their "costs" for bandwidth, transit, etc. proprietary
secrets and always lie to the consumer and muddy the picture of what the ISP
actually pays for regarding bits!
Additionally, until there can be proper tools that are "certified" for
measuring usage, then usage based billing will never be viable.
Robert Webb
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 10:11:29 -0600 (CST)
Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
> My point on usage based billing isn't meant to stifle anything, but
>to provide equitable service to everyone at a fair price. $10/gig
>certainly isn't a fair price for almost any network. People pay
>variable rates for water, electricity, gas, food, etc., etc.
>
> Is it necessarily a bad thing if people stop to think about what
>their usage costs?
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
