[19164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN /GTEI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve@altrina.exodus.net)
Mon Aug 31 16:55:32 1998
From: steve@altrina.exodus.net
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:34:18 -0700
To: Brett_Watson@enron.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <88256671.001307D8.00@notes.firstpoint.net>; from Brett_Watson@enron.net on Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 08:30:50PM -0700
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 08:30:50PM -0700, Brett_Watson@enron.net wrote:
> well alright, they're not perfect but i seriously doubt that if an isp
> customer (anyone's customer) disputed pulling down a 1.5M .zip file
> sometime last month as part of their overall usage sensative bill that said
> isp could show the customer proof in the log files or captured packet
> traces. my only point was that we have a long way to go on the isp side.
Now doesn't that open a whole new can of worms, logging the sites
that a customer hits, or worse, sniffing packets and logging them. The
legality of this starts to feel a little questoinalble. I would also fear the
day these 'records' were pulled into a court case, or worse...
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