[5715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Fri Oct 25 14:58:01 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:04:53 +0100 (BST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Matt Ranney <mjr@wacky.eit.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610251843.LAA15889@wacky.eit.com>
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Matt Ranney wrote:
> > to step forward at this point -- more Web traffic flows from the UK
> > to the US. That is, there is a small net flow of _benefit_ to the US
> > and a very large net imbalance in _costs_ to the UK.
>
> Obviously the costs are different, but how exactly are you measuring
> "benefit"? What if there are just more net-savvy folks the UK that
> want to run Web sites, resulting in a higher ratio of servers to
> browsers than in the US? Don't those people that put up Web servers
> then want people in the US to see them?
To my way of thinking, content providers are net producers of 'benefit'
and say dial-up users are consumers. We adjust our prices to reflect
this: if you buy a leased line from us to run a Web server, we charge
you less; if you are a dial-up provider, we charge you more.
Most end users would agree with this model. They pay their 10 quid /
15 bucks a month so that they can surf the Web. They don't expect the
Net to pay them ;-)
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