[11408] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Use market forces to deal with routing questions & charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Mar 31 20:29:49 1994
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 15:36:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
> In terms of the traffic that gets routed through a pipe, CIX shouldn't
>care if Sprint (or whoever), resells it to another provider. Traffic routed
>through CIX is at one endpoint at least connecting to a CIX customer. CIX
Unfortunately the costs to providers of the pipe don't work that way.
Generally they charge "individual" users a less assuming an some average
level of use, and size their networks on that basis. Resellers have a
different usage profile (usually greater), and therefore are being charged
different rates based on their average use.
If you want to claim that "market forces" should control this, I might
claim that in fact market forces are controlling it. Resellers and
individual users are different usage classes and charged different
rates as the market sees fit.
But in the end, you are correct, and the market will decide. If people
perceive the CIX as unfair, the market will create some other structure
to deal with it. Much like the CIX was created in response to ANS's
claims that everyone should pay ANS.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
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