The Great Exchange
Hal Murray
murray at pa.dec.com
Thu May 28 02:30:36 UTC 1998
> In short, I see no economic basis for such metering, and no moves
> towards such metering. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt that we're going
> to see any change in this any time soon.
There is another reason why some people don't like metering - it
makes predicting costs much more difficult. Imagine your local library
or university dept trying to budget for internet access.
I think I saw a comment that half the cost of a long distance call
was collecting the data and processing the billing. Can anybody
verify that?
> I think it's a North American view of the world, unsurprising on NANOG
> :-) Traffic metering is the dominant charging mechanism for permanent
> connections in Oz and Connect differentiate traffic based on its
> source (domestic/cache/external).
How much trouble is it to collect the billing data?
What are the relative rates for domestic/cache/external?
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