[70439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri May 14 18:16:25 2004
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@invisiblehand.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40A5387B.6010008@invisiblehand.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable?
Okay, so basically, I'm in complete sympathy with you, because I would
_like_ the overhead cost of an unutilized local loop to be zero.
Unfortunately, that's not the case in the not-entirely-ideal world in
which we live.
Also, the idea you're bringing back from the many-times-dead lies in the
shadow of the invisible hand of Enron. Which is unfortunate, since at
heart, it's a good idea.
-Bill
