[2424] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Billing systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Wed Feb 26 21:24:31 1992
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 18:21:53 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 26 Feb 92 17:59:23 EST <9202262259.AA02206@lagrange>
"...But if someone wants to use their link
for high-bandwidth communication for only a few minutes in the average
day, he will be dramatically overcharged...."
This is precisely the situation you get with small sites and/or client/server
kinds of usage. Solving this problem is I believe one of the key obstacles to
commercial viability of Internet technology in large scale.
Jack
