[1425] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Volume-sensitive charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Oct 1 21:34:19 1991
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 0:49:11 CDT
From: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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Boy, what a difference a little competition makes. Two years ago it was
sign here, and be grateful we're allowing you to pay us money. Now it is
how can I help you with anything (within reason). It seems like every
NOC in the country is standing ready to help you. Heck they're even
trying to solve problems I didn't think they could. I picked on Canada,
because I thought none of them had tackled the cross-border stuff yet.
I'm pleased to hear that they're proving me wrong.
I was interested in how to arrange pricing to encourage network
vendors to provide the most *useful* bandwidth per dollar. I'm still
digesting vlad@erg.sri.com's work but it looks like both the carrot
and stick are in there. Yes, I know all the current network providers
are generally decent people. But it would be nice to have it in the
contract in case they are bought out by some corporate raider next week.
I don't care about every single packet, but I would like most of
them to make it. A compensation scheme that motivates the vendor to
help the packet make it. Changing vendors has been suggested by several
people, but that is rather a major step. Especially in those cases where
the problem is annoying, but not catastrophic.
We don't want to kill the golden goose, just milk it for all its got.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
