[5962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policy ( was Re: AGIS/DIGEX )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Wed Oct 30 14:54:38 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:49:37 -0500
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu, michael@memra.com
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Scott Huddle wrote:
>
> > > > Applying lets say 1 cent per 100 bit charge, AAA gets $455.64 from BBB
> > >
> > > > So here is my question -- why is this kind of arrangement not being used
> > > > anywhere???
> > >
> > > The bookkeeping costs $2000 per month for *BOTH* providers to monitor
> > > this, collect data, collect bills, etc....
> >
> > Source of data, please?
>
> Same source as the other guy's data. I pulled it out of thin air.
> Actually, I figured $2,000 per month would be an appropriate salary for
> one clerk to handle this job.
>
> And the point was that managing settlements costs money. We know that in
> the POTS system the costs of usage based billing are at least 50% of the
> total.
OK, do you have a source for the POTs number?
-scott
