[1323] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
my need for usage-based charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Sep 10 16:56:20 1991
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 91 16:55:52 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: bob@MorningStar.Com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield's message of Tue, 10 Sep 91 16:06:41 -0400 <9109102006.AA14649@volitans.morningstar.com>
>From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@MorningStar.Com>
>If we could pay for a connection to a network that is unencumbered by
>Acceptable Use policies, and that would get us to some fair percentage
>of our customers, and if we could pay for that connection only when we
>need to use it rather than with some monthly fee, then we would be
>very eager to buy such a service.
Question: To what extent does a system like ours, World, fill that
low-traffic role? We have the connections (keep reading) and
concentrate the costs in one place, but can offer commercial accounts
to someone like yourselves on a usage-sensitive basis.
We live within NSF's Acceptable Use Guideline (sometimes I suspect we
are the only ones in the known universe, we don't have routes
installed to anywhere that isn't "acceptable".)
We don't do PPP etc directly as a service, we do terminal sessions.
But you could transfer here (we provide disk etc) via any serial means
(or send us a tape, floppy etc if that's more economical, or e-mail to
yourself via an account at UUNET or PSI or whatever) and your
customers could FTP to us, that's trivial to set up, we've done it for
others.
Maybe concentration of resources like this is an answer (not the only
answer, but certainly one you could be using 15 minutes from now.)
-Barry Shein
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