[1966] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Understanding COMBITs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Grimm)
Mon Jan 13 19:17:29 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 16:14:30 PST
From: Steven.Grimm@Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm)
To: com-priv@psi.com
So, to throw out a hypothetical, but not implausible, scenario:
Joe Evil, a student at XYZ University, decides he really doesn't think New
England should have net access. So he writes a program that floods commercial
NEARnet hosts with echo-request packets (or even discard packets.) Suddenly,
NEARnet's share of the bidirectional traffic across the ANS backbone jumps up
by 40 percent. Does this cost NEARnet a bundle and cause them to fold, or
do they now get a greater share of the infrastructure funding from all the
COMBITs? If the latter, I'm confused, because it then sounds like they're
being told, "Pay 40% more and we'll give you 40% more back." What's the point?
