[22063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sat Dec 5 15:40:02 1998
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:15:57 -0500
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981205140152.A506@Denninger.Net>
On December 5, 1998 at 14:01 karl@denninger.net (Karl Denninger) wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 02:38:57PM -0500, Barry Shein wrote:
> >
> > One possible positive effect (for the consumer) of "per-bit" pricing
> > is the opportunity to buy larger pipes but only pay for what you use.
>
> The other possible effect is that you buy one of these, and then someone
> launches a DOS attack at you and you get the bill for it.
>
> The economic impact of this should not be underestimated. Per-bitrate
> pricing is a problem as long as the receiver pays for the receipt of
> transmissions they may not have solicited.
Well, a paraphrase of the above is: We must engineer the net to keep
the cost of criminal activities to a minimum so we can continue to
avoid solving the underlying issue.
That's not ridiculous, it may even be an unavoidable factor, but it's
still somewhat sad.
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