[1970] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Summarizing the situation.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Bradner)
Mon Jan 13 21:58:41 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 21:56:56 -0500
From: sob@hsdndev.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)
To: com-priv@psi.com, wesommer@MIT.EDU
>> 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.
also a bit hard to do since the actual charge goes up if the midlevel
signs up another RE site. (even if they do not make any use of CO
sites)
Scott
