[55647] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Feb 5 13:58:36 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:57:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Koepp, Karsten" <Karsten.Koepp@lambdanet.net>
Cc: Lynn Bashaw <LBashaw@yipes.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39F27E3F569FD4119EF200508BAF85B9037DFB1C@CCGNT30>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Koepp, Karsten wrote:
> Volume usually totals in+out, whereas average does max(in,out)
> divided by time intervals.
Well, not to be nit-picky, but that wouldn't strictly be averaging, then.
To get back to the question at hand, another scheme that I'm seeing more
prevalent lately is dual-bin, where local traffic is flat-rate, and
international traffic is measured-rate (i.e. billed per-bit). That's
relatively easy to do in a simple satcom-up sort of network, since you
just bill by netflow accounting on the satcom interface.
There's been a really good discussion of these sorts of billing methods
going on on the NordNOG list over the past two weeks, and we'll be having
a panel discussion on billing methods at the NordNOG meeting next
week.
-Bill
