[1416] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Volume-sensitive charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Sep 29 17:55:51 1991
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1991 16:55:29 CDT
From: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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>Some service providers such as PSI put contractural guarantees on
>certain aspects of internetworking, provide backup capabilities etc..
Does this mean PSI will guarantee reachability of a site even if it
is on the other side of an ANS, Alternet, or NEARnet (etc...) router?
Now that would be exciting. But can you expect to be able to call
MERIT because you can't reach a PSI customer, after all they aren't
getting money to support your customers. And likewise when an ANS
router takes a dump, do you expect PSI to provide reachability to
ANS customers? And who is going to do something about the delays
to sites on CA*net (or TNnet, etc)?
>However, many organizations are only interested in how many bps/$ they
>get, and all other issues aren't even considered.
True, but they also expect/assume that the bps/$ will work end-to-end
a high percentage (> 99%) of the time. Paying $$$ for bps to nowhere
isn't very cost effective. People care, but the internetworking industry
is still young enough that people haven't gone through a second buying
cycle.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
