[1249] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
impact of settlements on provision of free services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Aug 28 14:30:45 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 14:26:49 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: emv@msen.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: emv@msen.com's message of Wed, 28 Aug 91 03:25:06 -0400 <m0kFKGx-000HeuC@heifetz.msen.com>
This issue of being charged for distributing free stuff came up a few
years ago on TCP-IP. The only plausible solution was adding a "reverse
charges" negotiation somewhere (WILL REVERSE-CHARGES, WONT
REVERSE-CHARGES a la telnet, tho it would probably have to be at the
IP layer, perhaps ICMP, either they're accepted or the connection is
closed.)
But it's a mess since it's not clear who then has to account for these
(presumably a router along the way between the two nets.) And we won't
even talk about the abuse potential...
-Barry Shein
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