[1671] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Commercial traffic and what is what??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.c)
Tue Dec 10 05:22:29 1991
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 02:19:50 PST
From: Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.com
To: com-priv@psi.com
I thought that we had hashed this subject out last month (and the month
before), but what the heck....
Points (true or false):
a) did com-priv come to the conclusion that a two BIT ID scheme for seperating
commercial and R&E traffic was insufficient?
b) is a two bit scheme still insufficient even if you use the network number in
conjunction with the bit flags?
c) we need some sort of bullet proof way of self-identifying commercial and R&E
traffic so that we can create an OAPF (Open ACCEPTABLE Path First) kind of
routing.
I (still) think we need a new way of identifying commercial traffic because
many sites carry on both commercial and R&E activities. And many users do both.
Simple schemes that say `this is good and that is bad' are not nearly flexible
enough.
Why limit traffic identification to commercial only? I can think of a few other
categories that need identification such as:
commercial `A' (business to business)
commercial `B' (business to individual)
commercial `C' (individual to business)
partly commercial (business services to R&E such as dialog, lexus, and others)
private commercial (internal business traffic)
slightly commercial (business related R&E)
government R&E
other R&E
recreational (all of the rec.arts lists, but that's my interepretation)
private (indivdual to individual)
That's just e-mail. How anyone is going to reliably ID anon ftp is beyond me.
An honor system can take us only so far. The short term solution is to have
everyone carry all traffic. BUT - as data pipes become a commodity item,
someone, somewhere is going to start screaming that they aren't going to accept
`x' traffic any longer. It would be better to have an acceptable and workable
solution in place than scramble to lash one together overnight.
Network operators could price their bandwidth and routing services seperately
for different categories of traffic. And government data pipes could seek
reimbursement from commercial users (or sell bandwidth `off-peak' to those same
commercial users) Or whatever.
The ICC may have to set tariffs for differrent kinds of data traffic, much like
the present tariff system for voice and data pipes. IP providers might have to
start acting like other common carriers. Sorry to open that can of worms.
