[11436] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Use market forces to deal with routing questions & charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Waldrop)
Sat Apr 2 17:45:37 1994
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Mar 1994 15:36:23 CST."
<940331153623.a8c4@SDG.DRA.COM>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 13:49:37 -0500
From: James Waldrop <jlw@cs.columbia.edu>
Sean Donelan wrote:
>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 I'm using 98% of my 56K link to Sprint, without reselling, are they
losing money on me? Somehow I don't think so. And if they are, that's
their business problem, not mine. At any rate, I don't see how CIX
enters this picture at all.
James Waldrop
jlw@cs.columbia.edu
sulam@well.sf.ca.us
