[1968] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Summarizing the situation.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Mon Jan 13 21:46:08 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 21:16:07 EST
From: wesommer@MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Jordan Becker's postings have been quite good at explaining the
situation; I'd like to thank him for expressing his explanations in
simple english, with examples.
It just struck me that the confusion over the "Infrastructure Pool"
would be diminished if the "normal" English terms for the transactions
were used.
"Payments from the Infrastructure Pool" are really "commisions", paid
by ANS to the regionals in exchange for their support in selling ANS
connectivity over their regional network.
> This is between you and your service provider, however I suspect
> that most service providers will charge you a flat rate surcharge
> that recovers the average incremental cost that they bear as a
> result of your commercial classification above and beyond the flat
> rate that they would otherwise charge you if you were classified as
> RE.
When a new service provider signs up, how are they supposed to
estimate the appropriate "flat rate", given that they have no idea of
what the combit proportions are likely to be? Something like that
might be possible in a well established, stable system, but that's not
what we have now.
- Bill
