[2425] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Billing systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Wed Feb 26 21:27:44 1992
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 18:25:53 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: craig@aland.bbn.com
Cc: drw@bourbaki.mit.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Craig Partridge's message of Wed, 26 Feb 92 15:48:38 -0800 <9202262348.AA12389@aland.bbn.com>
"...Actually, there's a good chance the data is in proportion to the bandwidth
of the lines. The proportion of traffic leaving an organization's
LAN into the greater Internet has proved to be almost constant, across
all organizations. Similar results for regional networks are being
informally reported. ..."
You have to consider cause and effect here. If it's too expensive to use the
technology for non-constant situations, then of course its reasonable that
measurements would indicate that current usage patterns are constant. We have
many sites (countries) that do not have full-time access to our internet,
because the costs (i.e., prices) of doing so right now simply are not justified
compared to other approaches such as UUCP/dialup connectivity.
Jack
