[533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 206.82.160.0/22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Mon Sep 25 03:13:24 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:11:41 -0700
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
To: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: john@interport.net, nmw@haven.ios.com, cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9509242253.AA27689@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> (jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu)
Resent-From: nanog@MERIT.EDU
Noel,
The only charging scheme that I can see working is to charge people for
advertising routes, with the charge related to the scope over which the
advertisement is seen. That way, there's a direct relationship between the
amount of resources consumed, and the amount charged, which is utterly fair.
Since we can now talk about charging:
A global charging scheme implies that there is a centralized, global
charging authority. That's unlikely to fly in any case. What MAY
fly, however, is if individual backbones charge for advertisements as
well as bandwidth.
This would be charged back through regional ISPs, who would decide
which backbones to connect to and charge back to their respective
customers.
Tony
