[186966] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Austin)
Mon Jan 11 14:07:31 2016
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From: Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:07:08 -0900
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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> My favorite is actually having enough bandwidth to meet demand. What a
> concept. Ought to work for terrestrial; where we run out of
> spectrum/bandwidth is in shared-medium last-mile.
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> That=E2=80=99s not a billing model=E2=80=A6 We were talking about billing=
models.
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> What=E2=80=99s your favorite billing model?
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Heh. I had said "fairness" =E2=80=94 perhaps we both support unfair billing=
but
fair supply?
Two sides of the same tarnished coin, supply and demand.
Which model I prefer=E2=80=A6 Diogenes, when asked what kind of wine he lik=
ed best,
replied "The wine of others."
As a user in that top 10%, I like my bandwidth subsidized by my unwitting
peers. As an ISP, I'm managing to sell it AYCE, but I'm small potatoes. My
opinions are my own but largely informed by what I observe for customer
satisfaction, contrasting models in an uncompetitive market.
